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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,729 words match “OVER”

OVERSLOW v. 2 definitions
To render slow; to check; to curb. [Obs.] Hammond.
OVERSMAN n. 2 definitions
An overseer; a superintendent.
OVERSNOW v.
To cover with snow, or as with snow. [Poetic] Shak. Dryden.
OVERSOON adv.
Too soon. Sir P. Sidney.
OVERSORROW v.
To grieve or afflict to excess. [Obs.] Milton.
OVERSOUL n.
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.
OVERSOW v.
To sow where something has already been sown. [R.] His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. x
OVERSPAN v.
To reach or extend over.
OVERSPEAK v.
To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.
OVERSPIN v.
To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly. W. Cartwright.
OVERSPREAD v. 2 definitions
To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. Drayton.
OVERSPRING v.
To spring or leap over.
OVERSTAND v.
To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [Obs.] What madman would o'erstand his market twice Dryden.
OVERSTARE v. 2 definitions
To outstare. [Obs.] Shak.
OVERSTATE v.
To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. Fuller.
OVERSTATEMENT n.
An exaggerated statement or account.
OVERSTAY v.
To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time. Bp. Hall.
OVERSTEP v.
To step over or beyond; to transgress. Shak.
OVERSTOCK v. 2 definitions
To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
OVERSTORE v.
To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.
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