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To supply in excess.

Excessively sure.

To talk to excess. Milton.

Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

To tire to excess; to exhaust.

To weary excessively; to exhaust. Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson.

Excessively troubled.

Excessive confidence.

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday.

Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] "Of no overweight worth." Fuller.

Excessive wetness. [Obs.] Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time. Bacon.

To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Excess of zeal. Fairfax.

Excessive acuteness of sight.

; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Lock

To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.

Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli. -- Par`al*ge"sic (#), a.

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, p…