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To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

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

From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.

Escape from an overlooked peril. [R.] "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser.

To cover with viscid matter. [R.] O'ersized with coagulate gore. Shak.

To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. Shak.

An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

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

To slide over or by.

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

An outer garment, or slop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To render slow; to check; to curb. [Obs.] Hammond.

An overseer; a superintendent.

To cover with snow, or as with snow. [Poetic] Shak. Dryden.

Too soon. Sir P. Sidney.

To grieve or afflict to excess. [Obs.] Milton.

The all-containing soul. [R.] That unity, that oversout, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson.

To sow where something has already been sown. [R.] His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. x