Who in deep mines for hidden knowledge toils, Like guns o'er-charged, breaks, misses, or recoils. Denham.

If they would make distinct abstract ideas of all the varieties in human actions, the number must be infinite, and the memory over-charged to little purpose. Locke. The fumes of passion do as really intoxicate, and confound the judging and discerning faculty, as the fumes of drink discompose and stupify the brain of a man over-charged with it. South.

The action of the Iliad and Eneid, in themselves exceeding short, are so beautifully extended by the invention of episodes, that they make up an agreeable story sufficient to employ the memory without over-charging it. Addison's Spectator.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. Collier. Our language is over-charged with consonants.

Pope. OVER-CLOUD', v. a. Over and cloud. To cover with clouds.

The silver empress of the night,
O'er-clouded, glimmers in a fainter light.

Tickel.

none.

Nature, so intent upon finishing her work, much oftener over-does than under does. You shall hear of twenty animals with two heads, for one that hath Grew. When the meat is over-done, lay the fault upon your lady who hurried you. Swift. OVER-DRESS, v. a. Over and dress. To adorn lavishly.

In all, let Nature never be forgot;
But treat the goddess like a modest fair,
Nor over-dress nor leave her wholly bare.

Pope. OVER-DRIVE', v. a. Over and drive. To drive too hard or beyond strength.

The flocks and herds with young, if men should over-drive one day, all will die. Gen. xxxiii. 13. OVER-EYE', v. a. Over and eye. To superintend; to observe; to remark.

I am doubtful of your modesties,
Lest over-eying of his odd behaviour,
You break into some merry passion.

Shakspeare. OVER-EMPTY, v. a. Over and empty. To make too empty.

The women would be loth to come behind the fashion in newfangledness of the manner, if not to costliness of the matter, which might over-empty their husband's purses. Carew.

OVERFAL', n. s. Over and fall. Cataract. Tostatus addeth, that those which dwell near those falls of water, are deaf from their infancy, like those that dwell near the overfals of Nilus.

Raleigh's History of the World.
OVER-FLOAT, v. n.
Over and float. To

The town is filled with slaughter, and o'erfloats, With a red deluge, their increasing moats.

Spenser.

swim; to float.

Shakspeare.

Where there are great overflows in fens, the drowning of them in winter maketh the summer following more fruitful; for that it keepeth the ground warm. Bacon's Natural History. Suppose thyself in as great a sadness as ever did load thy spirit, would'st thou not bear it cheerfully if thou wert sure that some excellent fortune would relieve and recompense thee so as to overflow all thy hopes? Taylor.

When men are young, they might vent the overflowings of their fancy that way. Denham.

Nor was it his indigence that forced him to make the world, but his goodness pressed him to impart the goods which he so overflowingly abounds with.

Boyle.

New milk that all the winter never fails, And all the summer over-flows the pails.

Dryden. While our strong walls secure us from the foe, Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow.

Id.

It requires pains to find the coherence of abstruse writings so that it is not to be wondered that St. Paul's epistles have, with many, passed for disjointed pious discourses, full of warmth and zeal and overflows of light, rather than for calm, strong, coherent Locke. reasonings all through. Had I the same consciousness that I saw Noah's flood, as that I saw the overflowing of the Thames last winter, I could not doubt, that I who saw the Thames overflowed, and viewed the flood at the general deluge, was the same self.

Id.

Do not the Nile and the Niger make yearly inundations in our days, as they have formerly done? and are not the countries so overflown still situate between the tropics? Bentley.

Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made it was overflowed and destroyed in a deluge of water, that overspread the face of the whole earth, from pole to pole, and from east to west. Burnet. After every overflow of the Nile there was not always a mensuration. Arbuthnot on Coins.

The expression may be ascribed to an overflow of gratitude in the general disposition of Ulysses.

Broome.

By an over-forwardness in courts to give countenance to frivolous exceptions, though they make nothing to the true merit of the cause, it often happens that causes are not determined according to their merits. Hale.

OVER-FREIGHT', v. a.; pret. overfreighted; part. over-fraught. Over and freight. To load too heavily; to fill with too great quantity.

A boat over-freighted with people, in rowing down the river, was, by the extreme weather, sunk.

great.

Though putting the mind unprepared upon an unusual stress ought to be avoided yet this must not run it, by an over-great shyness of difficulties, into a lazy sauntring about obvious things. Locke. OVER-GROW', v. a. & v.n.7 Over and grow. OVER-GROWTH', n. s. To cove with

growth; to grow beyond the fit and natural size, to rise above: overgrowth is exuberant or excessive growth.

Roof, and floor, and walls, were all of gold,
over-groun n with dust and old decay.

But
And hid in darkness that none could behold
The hue thereof.

Spenser.

One part of his army, with incredible labour, cut away through the thick and over-grown woods, and so came to Solyman. Knolles.

The over-growth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason. Shakspeare. The fortune in being the first in an invention doth cause sometimes a wonderful over-growth in riches. Bacon.

Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks To stop their over-growth, as inmate guests Too numerous. Milton's Paradise Lost. The woods and desart caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'er-grown, And all their echoes mourn.

Milton.

A huge over-grown ox was grazing in a meadow. L'Estrange.

If the binds be very strong and much over-grow the poles, some advise to strike off their heads with a long switch. Mortimer. Him for a happy man I own, Whose fortune is not over-grown. OVER-HALE', v.a.

spread over.

Swift.

Over and hale.

To

The welked Phoebus gan availe

His weary wain, and now the frosty night Her mantle black thro' heaven gan over-hale. Spenser. OVER-HANG', v. a. & v. n. Over and hang.

To jut over; to impend over.

Lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Let the brow overwhelm it,
As fearfully as doth a galled rock

O er-hang and jutty his confounded base.

Shakspeare.

Milton.

The rest was craggy cliff, that overhong Still as it rose, impossible to climb. Hide me, ye forests, in your closest bowers, Where flows the murm'ring brook, inviting dreams, Where bord'ring hazle over-hangs the streams. Gay.

If you drink tea upon a promontory that overhangs the sea, it is preferable to an assembly. Pope. OVER-HAR'DEN, v. a. Over and harden. To make too hard.

That such an enemy we have who seeks Our ruin, both by thee informed I learn, And from the parting angel over-heard. Milton.

OVERLADE', v. a. Over and lade. To over

burden.

Thus to throng and over-lade a soul

With love, and then to have a room for fear, That shall all that controul,

What is it but to rear

Our passions and our hopes on high,

That thence they may descry

The noblest way how to despair and die? Suckling. OVERLARGE', adj. Over and large. Larger than enough.

Our attainments cannot be over-large, and yet we manage a narrow fortune very unthriftily.

Collier. OVERLASH'INGLY, adv. Over and lash. With exaggeration. A mean word, now obsolete.

Although I be far from their opinion who write too overlashingly, that the Arabian tongue is in use that it extendeth where the religion of Mahomet is in two third parts of the inhabited world, yet I find

professed.

OVERLAY', v. a.

Brerewood.

The nurse,

L'Estrange.

OVER-HEND', v. a. overtake; to reach.

Over and hend. To

Als his fair leman flying through a brook, He over-hent naught moved with her piteous look. Spenser.

OVER-JOY', v. a. & n. s. Over and joy. To transport; to ravish: in the noun, transport; ecstasy.

The mutual conference that my mind hath had, Makes me the bolder to salute my king With ruder terms; such as my wit affords, And over-joy of heart doth minister. Shakspeare. He that puts his confidence in God only, is neither over-joued in any great good things of this life, nor sorrowful for a little thing. Taylor's Guide.

The bishop, partly astonished and partly overjoved with these speeches, was struck into a sad

silence for a time.

Hayward.

This love-sick virgin, over-joyed to find The boy alone, still followed him behind.

Addison.

OVER-LA BOR, v. a. Over and labor. To take too much pains on any thing; to harass

with toil.

Some commons are barren, the nature is such, And some over-layeth the commons too much.

Phoebus' golden face it did attaint,
As when a cloud his beams did over-lay.

Tusser.

Spenser.

Not only that mercy which keepeth from being over-laid and opprest, but mercy which saveth from being touched with grievous miseries. Hooker.

When any country is over-laid by the multitude which live upon it, there is a natural necessity compelling it to disburden itself and lay the load upon others. Raleigh.

We praise the things we hear with much more willingness than those we see; because we envy the present, and reverence the past; thinking ourselves instructed by the one, and over-laid by the other.

Ben Jonson. Good laws had been antiquated by the course of time, or over-laid by the corruption of manners. King Charles. Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers, which their infants over-lay.

Thou us impowered

Milton.

Id.

Id.

To fortify thus far, and over-lay, With this portentous bridge, the dark abyss. Id.. By his prescript a sanctuary is framed Of cedar, over-laid with gold. The strong Emetrius came in Arcite's aid, And Palamon with odds was over-laid. Dryden. The stars, no longer over-laid with weight, Exert their heads from underneath the mass, And upward shoot. They quickly stifled and over-laid those infant principles of piety and virtue, sown by God in thess so they brought a voluntary darkness and stupidity upon their minds. South's Sermons. Season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies; though it may seem extinguished for a while, it breaks out as soon as misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and over-laid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered. Addison's Spectator.

In preaching, no men succeed better than those who trust to the fund of their own reason, advanced but not over-laid by commerce with books. Swift.

I have transgressed the laws of oratory, in making my periods and parenthesis over-long. Boyle.

OVER-LOOK', v. a. Į Over and look. To OVER-LOOK'ER, ns. view from a high place; to revise; to watch over; to pass indulgently over a fault; to neglect: an overlooker is one who watches over others.

He was present in person to over-look the magistrates, and to overawe those subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser. In the greater out-parishes many of the poor parishioners, through neglect, do perish for want of some heedful eye to over-look them. Graunt.

The time and care that are required,
To over-look and file, and polish well,
Fright poets from that necessary toil.

Roscommon.

I will do it with the same respect to him as if he were alive, and over-looking my paper while I write. Dryden.

The pile o'er-looked the town, and drew the sight, Surprised at once with reverence and delight.

Id.

Of the two relations, Christ over-looked the meaner, and denominated them solely from the more honourable.

South.

Religious fear, when produced by just apprehensions of a divine power, naturally over-looks all hu

In vain do we hope that God will over-look such high contradiction of sinners, and pardon offences committed against the plain conviction of conscience. Rogers.

They over-look truth in the judgments they pass on adversity and prosperity. The temptations that distance; but they have no apprehension of the danattend the former they can easily see, and dread at a gerous consequences of the latter.

Atterbury.

To over-look the entertainment before him, and languish for that which lies out of the way, is sickly and servile. Collier.

The original word signifies an over-looker, or one who stands higher than his fellows and over-looks them. Watts. OVER-LOOP', n. s. The same with orlop.

In extremity we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether over-loops are raised commonly from the water; to wit, between the lower part of the port and the sea. Raleigh. OVER-MASTED, adj. Over and mast. Having too much mast.

Cloanthus, better manned. pursued him fast, But his o'er-musted gally checked his haste.

Dryden. OVER-MASTER, v. a. Over and master. To subdue; to govern.

For your desire to know what is between us, O'er-master it as you may. Shaispeare. Hamlet. So sleeps a pilot whose poor bark is prest With many a merciless o'er-mastering wave.

Crashaw. They are over-mastered with a score of drunkards, the only soldiery left about them, or else comply with all rapines and violences.

Milton on Education. OVER-MATCH', v. a. & n. s. Over and match. To be too powerful; to conquer: to oppress by superior force: the noun signifies one of superior power; one not to be overcome. I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves. Shakspeare.

Sir William Lucy, with me Set from our o'er-matched forces forth for aid. Id. Spain is no over-match for England, by that which leadeth all men; that is, experience and reason.

Bacon.

Take this purse of gold,

And let me buy your friendly help thus far, Which I will over-pay, and pay again, When I have found it.

Shakspeare.

You have yourself your kindness over-paid, He ceases to oblige who can upbraid. Dryden. Wilt thou with pleasure hear thy lover's strains, And with one heavenly smile o'er-pay his pains? Prior.

A single doit would overpay

The' expenditure of every day,

And who can grudge so small a grace

To suppliants, natives of the place! Cowper. OVERPERCH', v. a. Over and perch. To fly over.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out. Shakspeare. OVERPEER', v. a. Over and peer. Το over-look; to hover above. It is now out of

use.

The ocean, over-peering of his list,

Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste,
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O'er-bears your officers. Shakspeare. Hamlet.

Your argosies with portly sail,

Do over-peer the pretty traffickers,

That curt'sy to them, do them reverence.

Shakspeare.

Mountainous error would be too highly heapt, For truth to over-peer. Id. Coriolanus.

Thus yields the cedar to the ax's edge, Whose top branch over-peered Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. Shakspeare.

They are invincible by reason of the over-peering mountains that back the one, and slender fortifications of the other to land-ward. Sandy's Journal. O'VERPLUS, n. s. Over and plus. Surplus; what remains more than sufficient.

Some other sinners there are, from which that overplus of strength in persuasion doth arise.

Hooker's Preface.

A great deal too much of it was made, and the overplus remained still in the mortar. L'Estrange. It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune.

OVERPLY', v. a. Over and ply. ploy too laboriously.

Addison.

To em

What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, t'have lost them over-plied, In liberty's defence.

Milton's Poems.