Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-VER-EYE, v.t.

1. To superintend; to inspect. [Little used.]
2. To observe; to remark. Shak.

O-VER-FALL, n.

A cataract; the fall of a river. Ralegh.

O-VER-FA-TIGUE, n. overfatee'g.

Excessive fatigue.

O-VER-FA-TIGUE, v.t. overfatee'g.

To fatigue to excess. Watts.

O-VER-FED', pp.

Fed to excess.

O-VER-FEED', v.t.

To feed to excess. Dryden.

O-VER-F'ILL', v.t.

To fill to excess; to surcharge. Dryden.

O-VER-FLOAT, v.t.

To overflow; to inundate. Dryden.

O-VER-FLOUR-ISH, v.t. overflur'ish.

To make excessive display or flourish. Collier.

O-VER-FLOW, n.

An inundation; also, superabundance. Bacon.

O-VER-FLOW, v.i.

1. To run over; to swell and run over the brim or banks. Dryden.
2. To be abundant; to abound; to exuberate; as, overflowing plenty. Rogers.

O-VER-FLOW, v.t.

1. To spread over, as water; to inundate; to cover with water or other fluid.
2. To fill beyond the brim.
3. To deluge; to overwhelm; to cover, as with numbers. The northern nations overflowed all christendom. Spenser.

O-VER-FLOW-ED, pp.

Run or spread over, as water; deluged.

O-VER-FLOW-ING, a.

Abundant; copious; exuberant

O-VER-FLOW-ING, n.

Exuberance; copiousness. Denham.

O-VER-FLOW-ING, pp.

Spreading over, as a fluid; inundating; running over the brim or banks.

O-VER-FLOW-ING-LY, adv.

Exuberantly; in great abundance. Boyle.

O-VER-FLUSH', v.t.

To flush to excess.

O-VER-FLUSH'ED, pp.

1. Flushed to excess; reddened to excess.
2. Elated to excess. Addison.

O-VER-FLY', v.t.

To pass over or cross by night. Dryden.

O-VER-FOND', a.

Fond to excess.

O-VER-FOR'WARD, a.

Forward to excess.

O-VER-FOR'WARD-NESS, n.

Too great forwardness or readiness; officiousness. Hale.

O-VER-FREIGHT, v.t. overfra'te. [See Freight.]

To load too heavily; to fill with too great quantity or numbers; as, to overfreight a boat.

O-VER-FRUIT-FUL, a.

Too rich; producing superabundant crops. Dryden.