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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,729 words match “OVER”

OVERRIPEN v.
To make too ripe. Shak.
OVERROAST v.
To roast too much. Shak.
OVERRULE v. 4 definitions
To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
OVERRULER n.
One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.
OVERRULING a.
Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
OVERRUN v. 8 definitions
To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.
OVERRUNNER n.
One that overruns. Lovelace.
OVERSATURATE v.
To saturate to excess.
OVERSAY v.
To say over; to repeat. Ford.
OVERSCENTED a. 2 definitions
Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller.
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 superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
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.
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