thority; &c. As an adverb, beyond measure, or an assigned quantity; above the top; (hence, extraordinary); from side to side; throughout; completely on the whole surface; from beyond sea; past in point of time; and, repeated, another time; as in over and over.' • Over and above,' means besides; beyond a first supposition or intention: over against,' opposite: to give over,' to cease from; also to help or attempt to benefit no longer. Over is used so variously and extensively in composition that we can only refer to the extracts as generally expressive of more than enough, too much, and to the more regular and established compounds that follow. The first came out red all over, like an hairy garGenesis. When they did mete it, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack. Exodus, xvi. 18. On their intended journey to proceed, And over night whatso thereto did need.

ment.

Hubberd. Even here likewise the laws of nature and reason be of necessary use; yet somewhat over and besides necessary, namely, human and positive law. Hooker.

them

Bacon.

Certain lakes and pits, such as that of Avennes, poison birds which fly over them. It hath a white berry, but is not brought over with the coral. Bacon's Natural History. Wise governors have as great a watch over fames, as they have of the actions and designs. Bacon. This golden cluster the herald delivereth to the Tirsan, who delivereth it over to that son that he had chosen. Id.

Meditate upon the effects of anger; and the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the

fit is over.

Id.

Let them argue over all the topics of divine goodness and human weakness, yet how trifling must be their plea! South's Sermons.

The church has over her bishops, able to silence the factious, no less by their preaching than by their authority. South.

Over against this church stands a large hospital, erected by a shoemaker. Addison on Italy.

If this miracle, of Christ's rising from the dead, be not sufficient to convince a resolved libertine, neither would the rising of one now from the dead be suthcient for that purpose; since it would only be the doing that over again which hath been done already. Atterbury.

He will, as soon as his first surprise is over, begin to wonder how such a favour came to be bestowed on him. Id.

The eastern people determined their digit by the breadth of barley corns, six making a digit, and twenty-four a hand's breadth: a small matter over or under.

ld.

These, when they praise, the world believes no

more

Than when they promise to give scribbling o'er.

Pope.

The commentary which attends this poem will have one advantage over most commentaries, that it is not made upon conjectures. Id.

It will afford field enough for a divine to enlarge on, by showing the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen. Swift.

The most learned will never find occasion to act over again what is fabled of Alexander the Great, that when he had conquered the eastern world, he wept for want of more worlds to conquer. Watts.

They brought new customs and new vices o'er; Taught us more arts than honest men require.

Philips.

He crammed his pockets with the precious store, And every night reviewed it o'er and o'er. Harte. Throw the broad ditch behind you; o'er the hedge, High bound, resistless; nor the deep morass Refuse, but through the shaking wilderness Pick your nice way.

Thomson.

Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn;

Id.

Waller. rest; Dryden.

Oh! who can tell save he whose heart hath tried And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense-the pulses maddening play, That thrills the wanderer o'er that trackless way. Byron.

OVERALL (John), a celebrated English bishop, born in 1559, educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; but, removing to Trinity, was chosen fellow of that college. In 1596 he was made regius professor of divinity and D. D., and elected master of Catherine-hall. In 1601 he was made dean of St. Paul's, London, by the recommendation of Sir Fulk Greville and queen Elizabeth; and in king James's reign he was chosen prolocutor of the lower house of convocation. In 1612 he was appointed one of the first governors of the Charter-house hospital, and in April 1614 he was made bishop of Litchfield and Coventry; and in 1618 was translated to Norwich where he died in May 1619, aged sixty. He was buried in that cathedral, where after the restoration, Cosin, bishop of Durham, who had been his secretary, erected a monument to him, with this inscription, Vir undequaque doctissimus, et omni encomio major. Wood says, he was the best scholastic divine in England. He is also celebrated by Smith for his distinguished wisdom, erudition, and piety. In the controversy about predestination and grace, he held a middle opinion inclining to Arminianism. He seems indeed to have paved the way for the reception of that doctrine in England. The bishop is known in England chiefly by his Convocation Book.

OVER-ARCH', v. a. Over and arch. To cover as with an arch.

Where high Ithaca o'erlooks the floods, Brown with o'er-arching shades and pendent woods, Pope.

OVER-AWE', v. a. Over and awe. To keep in awe by superior influence.

The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and to over-awe those subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

Her graceful innocence, her every air Of gesture, or least action, over-awed His malice. Milton's Paradise Lost. I could be content to be your chief tormentor, ever paying you mock reverence, and sounding in

The mind should be kept in a perfect indifference, not inclining to either side, any further thin the overbalance of probability gives it the turn of assent and belief. Locke.

The hundred thousand pounds per annum, wherein we over-balance them in trade, must be paid us in money. Id.

When these important consideratiors are set before a rational being, acknowledging the truth of every article, should a bare single possibility be of weight enough to averbalance them? Rogers.

OVER-BATTLE, adj. From over and battle. Too fruitful; exuberant.

In the church of God sometimes it cometh to pass, as in over-battle grounds; the fertile disposition whereof is good, yet, because it exceedeth due proportion, it bringeth abundantly, through too much rankness, things less profitable, whereby that which principally it should yield, either prevented in place or defrauded of nourishment, faileth.

Hooker.

You have o'er-bid all my past sufferings, And all my future too. Dryden's Spanish Friar. OVER-BLOW', v. n. & v. a. Over and blow. To be past its violence.

Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, Until the blustering storm is over-blown.

Spenser.

Shakspeare.

This ague fit of fear is over-blown,
AL easy task it is to win our own.

Some argel that beholds her there,
Instruct us to record what she was here;
And when this cloud of sorrow's over-blown,
Through he wide world we'll make her graces
known.
Waller.

Seized with secret joy,
When storms are over-blown.

Dryden's Virgils.
OVERBOARD, adj. Over and board. See
BOARD. Off the ship, out of the ship.
The great assembly met again; and now he that
was the cause of the tempest being thrown over-
board, there were hopes a calm should ensue.
Howel.
The trenbling dotard to the deck he drew,
And hoisel up and over-board he threw ;
This done e seized the helm.

Dryden.

He obtairel liberty to give them only one song before he leaped over-board, which he did, and then plunged into he sea. L'Estrange.

A merchan having a vessel richly fraught at sea in a storm, there is but one certain way to save it, which is, by throwing its rich lading over-board.

South.

Though great ships were commonly bad sea-boats, they had a superior force in a sea engagement: the shock of than being sometimes so violent, that it would throw the crew on the upper deck of lesser ships over-board.

Arbuthnot.

Then rose rom sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave,

Then some leaped over-board with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave. Buron. OVER-BLK, v. a. Over and bulk. Toop

press by buk.

The feeding pride,

In rank Achilles, must or now be cropt,
Or shedding, breed a nursery of like evils,
To over-buk us all.

Shakspeare. Troilus and Cressida.
Over and burden.

OVER-BUR'DEN, v. a.
To load with oo great weight.

If she were tot cloyed with his company, and that she thought not the earth over-burdened with him, she would cool his iery grief. Sidney.

OVERBUEY (Sir Thomas), a learned and accomplished English gentleman, was born in 1581, and studied at Oxford. His intimacy with Sir Robert Carr procured him the honor of knighthood, and also occasioned his death. When Sir Robert became viscount Rochester, he contracted an intimacy with the countess of

Essex, of which Sir Thomas disapproved in so plain terms, that the viscount treacherously used his influence with the king to inspire him with unjust suspicions of the baronet, who was thrown months, he was poisoned, in 1613. The treainto the tower, where, in the course of a few derers were only punished with a temporary cheary was afterwards discovered, but the murbanishment from court. He published an ac

count of his travels on the continent, and several poems.

OVER-BUY', v. a. too dear.

Over and buy. To buy

The day with clouds was sudden over-cast. When malice would work that which is evil, and in working avoid the suspicion of an evil intent, the color wherewith it over-casteth itself is always a fair and plausible pretence of seeking to further that which is good.

Hooker.

Hie, Robin, over-cast the night;
The starry welkin cover thou anon,
With drooping fogs as black as Acheron.
Shakspeare.

Our days of act are sad and over-cast, in which we find that all of our vain passions and affections past, the sorrow only abideth." Raleigh.

much over-cast his fortunes, which proved full of broThe king, in his accompt of peace and calms, did ken seas, tides, and tempests. Bacon.

I of fumes and humid vapors made, No cloud in so serene a mansion find, To over-cast her ever-shining mind. Waller. Those clouds that over-cast our morn shall fly, Dispelled to farthest corners of the sky. Dryden.

The dawn is over-cast, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day.

OVER-CHARGE', v. a.

Addison.

Over and charge. To burden; to overrate; to fill too full; to oppress; to cloy; to surcharge.

Here's Gloster, a foe to citizens, O'er-charging your free purses with large fines. Shakspeare.

They were

As cannis over-charged with double cracks. Id. On air we feed in every instant, and on meats but at times; and yet the heavy load of abundance, wherewith we oppress and overcharge nature, maketh her to sink unawares in the mid-way.

Raleigh's History of the World.

OVER-CLOY', v. a. Over and cloy. To fill beyond satiety.

A scum of Britons and base lacquey peasants,
Whom their over-cloyed country vomits forth
To desperate adventures and destruction.

Shakspeare. OVERCOME', v. a. Į To subdue; to conOVERCOMER, n. s. quer; to surmount or

overflow; to invade suddenly.

Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 2 Peter, ii. 19. This wretched woman, overcome Of anguish rather than of crime hath been.

Spenser.

OVERDO', v. a. than enough.

Over and do. To do more

Any thing so over-done is from the purpose of playing; whose end is to hold the mirror up to nature. Shakspeare.

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. Το swim; to float.

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

OVERFLOW', v. n., v. a., & n. s. OVERFLOW'ING, n. s.

OVERFLOW'INGLY, adv.

Dryden.

To be fuller than

the brim

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 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 alArbuthnot on Coins.

ways a mensuration.

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

Broome.

Shakspeare.

Denham.

Sorrow has so o'er-fraught This sinking bark, I shall not live to show How I abhor my first rash crime. OVERGET', v. a. Over and get. To pass; to leave behind.

With six hours hard riding through so wild places, as it was rather the cunning of my horse sometimes, than of myself, so rightly to hit the way, I over-got them a little before night.

Sidney. OVER-GLANCE', v. a. Over and glance. To look hastily over.

I have, but with a cursory eye,
O'er-glanced the articles.

Shakspeare. Henry V. OVER-GO', v. a. Over and go. To surpass ;

to excel.

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. 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,
But over-grown with dust and old decay,
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 dotl 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 long switch. Mortimer.

Him for a happy man I own, Whose fortune is not over-grown. OVER-HALE', v.a.

spread over.

Over and hale.

Swift.

Το

His weary wain, and now the frosty night
Her mantle black thro' heaven gan over-hale.
Spenser.
Over and hang.

OVER-HANG', v. a. & v. n.

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.

The rest was craggy cliff, that overhang Still as it rose, impossible to climb. Milton. 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.