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Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise. Bacon.

pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser.

To talk to excess. Milton.

To task too heavily.

To tax or to task too heavily.

Too tedious.

To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.

The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

To tilt over; to overturn.

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

To tire to excess; to exhaust.

To give too high a title to.

Publicly; openly.

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

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmoni…

To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton.

To tower over or above.