Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: O-VER-BAL'AN-CING – O-VER-CAR'RY
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O-VER-BAL'AN-CING, ppr.
Exceeding in weight, value or importance.
O-VER-BAT'TLE, a. [qu. from the root batten, to fatten.]
Too fruitful; exuberant. [Not used.] – Hooker.
O-VER-BEAR', v.t. [See Bear.]
To bear down; to repress; to subdue. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. – Bacon. Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne / By numbers. – Derham. Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. – Dryden.
O-VER-BEAR-ING, ppr.
- Bearing down; repressing.
- adj. Haughty and dogmatical; disposed or tending to repress or subdue by insolence or effrontery.
O-VER-BEAR'ING-LY, adv.
Haughtily; dogmatically.
O-VER-BEND', v.t.
To bend or stretch to excess. – Donne.
O-VER-BID', v.t.
- To bid or offer beyond.
- To bid or offer more than an equivalent.
O-VER-BLOW', v.i.
- To blow with too much violence; a seaman's phrase.
- To blow over, or be past its violence. [Not used.]
O-VER-BLOW', v.t.
To blow away; to dissipate by wind. – Waller.
O-VER-BLOWN', pp.
Blown by and gone; blown away; driven by; past. – Dryden. And when this cloud of sorrow's overblown. – Waller.
O'VER-BOARD, adv. [over and Fr. bord, side.]
Literally, over the side of a ship; hence, out of a ship or from on board; as, to fall overboard; which of course is to fall into the water. – Mar. Dict.
O-VER-BROW', v.t.
To hang over. – Collins.
O-VER-BUILT, pp. [overbilt'.]
Built over. – Milton.
O-VER-BULK', v.t.
To oppress by bulk. [Not used.] – Shak.
O-VER-BUR'DEN, v.t.
To load with too great weight. – Sidney.
O-VER-BUR'DEN-ED, pp.
Overloaded.
O-VER-BUR'DEN-ING, ppr.
Overloading.
O-VER-BURN', v.t.
To burn too much. – Mortimer.
O-VER-BU-SY, a. [overbiz'zy.]
Too busy; officious. – Decay of Piety.
O-VER-BUY', v.t.
To buy at too dear a rate. – Dryden.
O-VER-CAN'O-PY, v.t.
To cover as with a canopy. – Shak.
O-VER-CARE', n.
Excessive care or anxiety. – Dryden.
O-VER-CARE'FUL, a.
Careful to excess.
O-VER-CAR'RI-ED, pp.
Carried too far.
O-VER-CAR'RY, v.t.
To carry too far; to carry or urge beyond the proper point. – Hayward.