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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13,702 words match “ERS”

OVERSATURATE v.
To saturate to excess.
OVERSAY v.
To say over; to repeat. Ford.
OVERSCENTED a. 2 definitions
Scented excessively.
OVERSCRUPULOSITY n.
Overscrupulousness.
OVERSCRUPULOUS a.
Scrupulous to excess.
OVERSCRUPULOUSNESS n.
The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
OVERSEA a.
Beyond the sea; foreign.
OVERSEA; OVERSEAS adv.
Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.
OVERSEARCH v.
To search all over.
OVERSEASON v.
To season too highly.
OVERSEE v. 3 definitions
To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.] The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.
OVERSEER n.
One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
OVERSEERSHIP n.
The office of an overseer.
OVERSELL v. 2 definitions
To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl.
OVERSET v. 6 definitions
or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.
OVERSHADE v.
To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
OVERSHADOW v. 2 definitions
To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.
OVERSHADOWER n.
One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.
OVERSHADOWY a.
Overshadowing. [R.]
OVERSHAKE v.
To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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