Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-VER-RIP'EN, v.t.

To make too ripe. Shak.

O-VER-ROAST', v.t.

To roast too much. Shak.

O-VER-RULE', v.t.

1. To influence or control by predominant power; to subject to superior authority. The law must overrule all private opinions of right and wrong. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon.
2. To govern with high authority. Hayward.
3. In law, to supersede or reject; as, the plea was overruled by the court.

O-VER-RUL'ED, pp.

1. Influenced by predominant power.
2. Superseded or rejected.

O-VER-RUL'ER, n.

One who controls, directs or governs. Sidney.

O-VER-RUL'ING, ppr.

1. Controlling; subjecting to authority.
2. adj. Exerting superior and controlling power; as an overruling Providence.

O-VER-RUL'ING-LY, adv.

Controllingly.

O-VER-RUN', pp.

Run or spread over; grown over; injured by treading down.

O-VER-RUN', v.t.¹

1. To run or spread over; to grow over; to cover all over. The sluggard's farm is overrun with weeds. Some plants unchecked will soon overrun a field. The Canada thistle is overrunning the northern parts of New England, as it has overrun Normandy.
2. To march or rove over; to harass by hostile incursions; to ravage. The south of Europe was formerly overrun by the Goths, Vandals and other barbarians.
3. To outrun; to run faster than another and leave him behind. Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. 2 Sam. xviii.
4. To overspread with numbers. Were it not for the ibis, it has been supposed Egypt would be overrun with crocodiles.
5. To injure by treading down.
6. Among printers, to change the disposition of types and carry those of one line into another, either in correction, or in the contraction or extension of columns.

O-VER-RUN', v.t.²

To overflow; to run over. Smith.

O-VER-RUN'NER, n.

One that overruns.

O-VER-RUN'NING, n.

The act of overflowing or running over.

O-VER-RUN'NING, ppr.

Spreading over; ravaging; changing the disposition of types.

O-VER-SAT'U-RATE, v.t.

To saturate to excess.

O-VER-SAT'U-RA-TED, pp.

More than saturated.

O-VER-SAT'U-RA-TING, ppr.

Saturating to excess.

O-VER-SCRU'PU-LOUS, a.

Scrupulous to excess. Mitford.

O-VER-SEA', a.

Foreign; from beyond sea. Wilson.

O-VER-SEE', v.t.

1. To superintend; to overlook, implying care.
2. To pass unheeded; to omit; to neglect. [Not used.] Hudibras.

O-VER-SEE'ING, ppr.

Superintending; overlooking.

O-VER-SEEN', pp.

1. Superintended.
2. Mistaken; deceived. [Not used.] Hooker.

O'VER-SEER, n.

1. One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor.
2. An officer who has the care of the poor or of an idiot, &c.

O-VER-SET', v.i.

To turn or be turned over; to turn or fall off the basis or bottom. A crank vessel is liable to overset.

O-VER-SET', v.t.

1. To turn from the proper position or basis; to turn upon the side, or to turn bottom upward; as, to overset a coach, a ship or a building.
2. To subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset the constitution of a state; to overset a scheme of policy.
3. To throw off the proper foundation. Dryden.

O-VER-SET'TING, ppr.

Turning upon the side or bottom upward; subverting; overthrowing.