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To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen. Swift.

To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.

To gain the superiority; to be victorious. Rev. iii. 21.

To superintend; to oversee; to inspect. [Obs.]

To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.

The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. Sir T. More.

To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

A superficial covering; a coating.

To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.

Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.

One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master. Freeman.

Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

To marry (one) to a superior. [Obs.] Burton.

The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. [R.] B. Jonson.

To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.

To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.