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Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.

hausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.…

The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

(Med.) Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.

facies Hippocratica], the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxe…

Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.

Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [Political Cant, U.S.]

Intense publicity for a future event, performed in a showy or excessively dramatic manner suggesting an importance not justified by the event; as, the hype surrounding the superbowl is usually ludicrous. [PJC]

ying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]

Excessively nice or exact. Evelyn.

Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.

Tending to excess of formative action.

A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.