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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 tread over or upon.

To trip over nimbly.

Excessively troubled.

To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much. [Obs.] Wyclif

Excessive confidence.

An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.] Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture." Chapman.

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

One who overturns. South.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

e by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Secrecy; privacy. [R.]