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Too hardy; overbold.

Too great haste.

Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.

To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.

tached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. While overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Milton.

Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice. Shak.

To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.

Excessively heavy.

To hele or cover over. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To overtake. [Obs.] So forth he went and soon them overhent. Spenser.

Too high.

Too highly; too greatly.

To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass. [Obs.] "When the time is overhipt." Holland.

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

Covered over; ornamented with hangings. Carlyle.

To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.

an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. An overissue of government paper. Brougham.