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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,729 words match “OVER”

OVERLAYING n.
A superficial covering; a coating.
OVERLEAD v.
To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OVERLEAP v.
To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. "Let me o'erleap that custom." Shak.
OVERLEARNED a.
Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
OVERLEATHER n.
Upper leather. Shak.
OVERLEAVEN v.
To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]
OVERLIBERAL a.
Too liberal.
OVERLIBERALLY adv.
In an overliberal manner.
OVERLICK v.
To lick over.
OVERLIE v.
To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.
OVERLIGHT n. 2 definitions
Too strong a light. Bacon.
OVERLINESS n.
The quality or state of being overly; carelessness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
OVERLINGER v.
To cause to linger; to detain too long. [Obs.] Fuller.
OVERLIP n.
The upper lip. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OVERLIVE v. 2 definitions
To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.
OVERLIVER n.
A survivor. Bacon.
OVERLOAD v. 2 definitions
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
OVERLOGICAL a.
Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.
OVERLONG a.
Too long. Shak.
OVERLOOK v. 5 definitions
To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.
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