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Too highly; too greatly.

To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate. [Obs.] Shak.

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest. [Obs.] Fabyan.

To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

To rate or value too highly.

To reckon too highly.

To season too highly.

specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl.

To give too high a title to.

To soar too high. [R.] Fuller.

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

To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.

A high and narrow tank, with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; -- so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.…

A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidæ. It is highly esteemed as food.

A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron.

A highwayman; a footpad. [Obs.]