Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 42

Overtire (v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.

Overtire (v. t.) To become too tired.

Overtitle (v. t.) To give too high a title to.

Overtly (adv.) Publicly; openly.

Overtoil (v. t.) To overwork.

Overtoil (v. t.) To weary excessively; to exhaust.

Overtone (n.) 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 Harmonic, and Tone.

Overtopped (imp. & p. p.) of Overtop

Overtopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtop

Overtop (v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

Overtop (v. t.) To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.

Overtop (v. t.) To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.

Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.

Overtower (v. i.) To soar too high.

Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Overtrading (n.) The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

Overtread (v. t.) To tread over or upon.

Overtrip (v. t.) To trip over nimbly.

Overtroubled (a.) Excessively troubled.

Overtrow (v. i.) To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much.

Overtrust (n.) Excessive confidence.

Overtrust (v. t. & i.) To trust too much.

Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

Overture () Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

Overture () A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

Overture () A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

Overture (v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

Overturned (imp. & p. p.) of Overturn

Overturning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overturn

Overturn (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Overturn (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

Overturn (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

Overturn (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

Overturnable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

Overturner (n.) One who overturns.

Overvail (v. t.) See Overveil.

Overvaluation (n.) Excessive valuation; overestimate.

Overvalued (imp. & p. p.) of Overvalue

Overvaluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overvalue

Overvalue (v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.

Overvalue (v. t.) To exceed in value.

Overveil (v. t.) To veil or cover.

Overview (n.) An inspection or overlooking.

Overvote (v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

Overwalk (v. t.) To walk over or upon.

Overwar (v. t.) To defeat.

Overwary (a.) Too wary; too cautious.

Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.

Overwasted (a.) Wasted or worn out; /onsumed; spent

Overwatch (v. t.) To watch too much.

Overwatch (v. t.) To weary or exhaust by watching.

Overwax (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.

Overweak (a.) Too weak; too feeble.

Overwear (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.

Overweary (v. t.) To weary too much; to tire out.

Overweather (v. t.) To expose too long to the influence of the weather.

Overween (v. t.) 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.

Overweener (n.) One who overweens.

Overweening (a.) Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.

Overweening (n.) Conceit; arrogance.

Overweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Overweight (n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

Overweight (n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

Overweight (a.) Overweighing; excessive.

Overwell (v. t.) To overflow.

Overwet (n.) Excessive wetness.

Overwhelmed (imp. & p. p.) of Overwhelm

Overwhelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwhelm

Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.

Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.

Overwhelm (v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.

Overwhelm (n.) The act of overwhelming.

Overwhelming (a.) Overpowering; irresistible.

Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.

Overwise (a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.

Overwit (v. t.) To outwit.

Overword (v. t.) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

Overworked (imp. & p. p.) of Overwork

Overwrought () of Overwork

Overworking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwork

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

Overwork (v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.

Overwork (v. t.) To decorate all over.

Overwork (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.

Overwork (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Overworn (v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.

Overwrought (p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Overzeal (n.) Excess of zeal.

Overzealous (a.) Too zealous.

Ovicapsule (n.) The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

Ovicapsule (n.) Same as Ootheca.

Ovicell (n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

Ovioular (a.) Of or pertaining to an egg.

Ovicyst (n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Ovidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Oviducal (a.) Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

Oviduct (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

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