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The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

To give the force or form of an adverb to.

In the manner of an adverb.

A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.] Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton.

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

A sounding through.

Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports. J. Edwards.

Excessively barren.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.

To bend to excess.

To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.

To outlive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.

To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.