Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: outstar – over
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outstar (-ing), v. [see out, adv. and star, n.]
Outshine; surpass; excel; exceed; transcend; go beyond; improve upon; [word play on “staring”] eluding; evading; beyond the sight of; escaping the perception of.
outstrip (-ped), v. [see out, adv. + strip, v.]
Beat; escape; outrun; move beyond; leave behind; run faster than; hurry away from.
outvie, v. [see out, adv., + Fr. envier]
Surpass; exceed; outdo in competition.
outvision (-s), v. [see out, adv. and vision, n.]
Surpass; excel; outdo; transcend; look better than; exceed in beauty; be more of a dream come true than.
outweigh (-s), v. [see out, adv. + weigh, v.]
Surpass the value of.
oval, adj. [L. ovat-us.]
Egg shaped.
oven, n. [OE ofn, ofen.]
A kitchen appliance used for cooking food.
over (oer), adj. [“over” modifying a noun; see over, adv.]
Complete; full; past; done; finished; fulfilled; halted; at an end.
over (oer, o'er), adv. [OE; “over” modifying a verb to tell where or how an action occurs.]
- There; to the place where you are.
- Above; upon; touching.
- Beyond normal limits; out of bounds.
- Again; repeatedly.
- Finished; past; ended; [irony] repeated; recurring; happening again; [fig.] at a distance.
- Completely; thoroughly.
- Higher than.
- Phrase. “view … o'er”: survey; look across; examine from one end to the other; [ED quotation from a hymn text by Isaac Watts.]
- Phrase. “over and over”/“oer and oer”: repeatedly; endlessly; many times; again and again.
- Phrase. “run it over”: review it; repeat it; go through it again.
- Phrase. “over there”: far away; in the distance.
- Phrase. “count … o'er”: recount; account for all of; [fig.] review; remember.
- Phrase. “turn o'er and o'er”: look at carefully; examine by sight repeatedly; study visually for a long time; return the gaze to again and again.
over (o'er), prep. [“over” + noun phrase; see over, adv.]
- Across.
- Up from.
- Up; upon; upward.
- Covering; on top of; upon the surface of.
- On the other side of.
- More than; greater than; above and beyond; to the extreme degree of.
- Surpassing; superior to; with greater power than; from a higher position than.
- Farther than; moving above and beyond; towards a greater extent than.
- Through; all around.
- Throughout the whole of.