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That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

To reach above or beyond in any direction.

To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. [Obs.] I overrode him on the way. Shak.

To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running. Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. 2 Sam. xviii. 23.

Beyond the sea; foreign.

To sell beyond means of delivery. [Brokers'Cant] Oversold market (Brokers' Cant), a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold "short" to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.

To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.

To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time. Bp. Hall.

To step over or beyond; to transgress. Shak.

To stride over or beyond.

To strike beyond. [Obs.]

To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.

Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton.

To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

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