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To weary excessively; to exhaust. Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson.

Excessively troubled.

Excessive confidence.

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday.

Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] "Of no overweight worth." Fuller.

Excessive wetness. [Obs.] Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time. Bacon.

To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Excessive acuteness of sight.

Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- Par`al*ge"sic (#), a.

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. Bacon. Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. Thackeray.

Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." Shak.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts." Milton.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Excessive care or diligence. [Obs.]

Redundant or excessive in words. [R.]

The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.