Had I 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 always a mensuration. Arbuthnot on Coins.

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.

Daniel.

Over and gorge. To

Art thou grown great
And, like ambitious Sylla, over-gorged?

Shakspeare. OVER-GREAT, adj. Over and great. Too

great.

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 doth 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 a long switch. Mortimer.

Swift.

Him for a happy man I own, Whose fortune is not over-grown. OVER-HALE', v. à. Over and hale. To spread over.

The welked Phoebus gan availe His weary wain, and now the frosty night Her mantle black thro' heaven gan over-hale. Spenser. OVER-HANG', v. a. & v. n. Over and hang.

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.

Milton.

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

What is it but to rear

Our passions and our hopes on high,
That thence they may descry

The noblest way how to despair and die? Suckling. OVERLARGE', adj. Over and large. Larger than enough.

Our attainments cannot be over-large, and yet we manage a narrow fortune very unthriftily.

Collier. OVERLASH'INGLY, adv. Over and lash. With exaggeration. A mean word, now obsolete.

Although I be far from their opinion who write too overlashingly, that the Arabian tongue is in use in two third parts of the inhabited world, yet I find that it extendeth where the religion of Mahomet is professed.

Brerewood.

OVERLAY', v. a. Over and lay. To oppress by too much weight or power; to smother; to overwhelm; to cover superficially.

Some commons are barren, the nature is such, And some over-layeth the commons too much.

Phoebus' golden face it did attaint, As when a cloud his beams did over-lay.

Tusser.

Spenser. Not only that mercy which keepeth from being over-laid and opprest, but mercy which saveth from being touched with grievous miseries.

Hooker.

When any country is over-laid by the multitude which live upon it, there is a natural necessity compelling it to disburden itself and lay the load upon Raleigh. others.

We praise the things we hear with much more willingness than those we see; because we envy the present, and reverence the past; thinking ourselves instructed by the one, and over-laid by the other.

Ben Jonson.

To fortify thus far, and over-lay,
With this portentous bridge, the dark abyss. Id.
By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
Of cedar, over-laid with gold.
The strong Emetrius came in Arcite's aid,
And Palamon with odds was over-laid. Dryden.
The stars, no longer over-laid with weight,
Exert their heads from underneath the mass,
And upward shoot.

Id.

They quickly stifled and over-laid those infant principles of piety and virtue, sown by God in their hearts; so that they brought a voluntary darkness South's Sermons. and stupidity upon their minds.

Season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies; though it may seem extinguished for a while, it breaks out as soon as misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and over-laid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered. Addison's Spectator.

In preaching, no men succeed better than those who trust to the fund of their own reason, advanced but not over-laid by commerce with books. Swift.

A step

On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap,
For in my way it lies. Shakspeare. Macbeth.
In vain did Nature's wise command
Divide the waters from the land;
If daring ships and men prophane
The eternal fences over-leap,

And pass at will the boundless deep. Dryden.
OVER-LEATH'ER, n. s. Over and leather.
The part of the shoe that covers the foot.
I have sometimes more feet than shoes; or such
shoes as my toes look through the over-leather.
Shakspeare.

Why do I over-live?

Hayward.

Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
To deathless pain?
Milton's Paradise Lost.

OVER-LOAD', v. a. Over and load. To burden with too much.

The memory of youth is charged and over-loaded, and all they learn is mere jargon. Felton.

Men over-loaded with a large estate May spill their treasure in a nice conceit; The rich may be polite, but oh! 'tis sad, To say you're curious, when we swear you're mad. Young. OVER-LONG', adj. Over and long. Too

long.

I have transgressed the laws of oratory, in making my periods and parenthesis over-long. Boyle.

OVER-LOOK', v. a. Į Over and look. To OVER-LOOK'ER, n. s. view from a high place; to revise; to watch over; to pass indulgently over a fault; to neglect: an overlooker is one who watches over others.

He was present in person to over-look the magistrates, and to overawe those subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser. In the greater out-parishes many of the poor parishioners, through neglect, do perish for want of some heedful eye to over-look them. Graunt.

The time and care that are required,
To over-look and file, and polish well,
Fright poets from that necessary toil.

Roscommon.

I will do it with the same respect to him as if he were alive, and over-looking my paper while I write. Dryden.

The pile o'er-looked the town, and drew the sight, Surprised at once with reverence and delight. Id.

Of the two relations, Christ over-looked the meaner, and denominated them solely from the more honourable. South.

Religious fear, when produced by just apprehensions of a divine power, naturally over-looks all hu

extinguishes every other terror.

Addison.

This part of good-nature, which consists in the pardoning and over-looking of faults, is to be exercised only in doing ourselves justice in the ordinary commerce of life.

Id.

In vain do we hope that God will over-look such high contradiction of sinners, and pardon offences committed against the plain conviction of conscience. Rogers.

They over-look truth in the judgments they pass on adversity and prosperity. The temptations that distance; but they have no apprehension of the danattend the former they can easily see, and dread at a gerous consequences of the latter. Atterbury.

To over-look the entertainment before him, and languish for that which lies out of the way, is sickly

and servile.

them.

Collier.

The original word signifies an over-looker, or one who stands higher than his fellows and over-looks Watts. OVER-LOOP', n. s. The same with orlop. In extremity we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether over-loops are raised commonly from the water; to wit, between the lower part of the port and the sea. Raleigh. OVER-MAST'ED, adj. Over and mast. Having too much mast.

Cloanthus, better manned, pursued him fast, But his o'er-masted gally checked his haste.

Dryden. OVER-MASTER, v. a. Over and master. To subdue; to govern.

For your desire to know what is between us, O'er-master it as you may. Shakspeare. Hamlet. So sleeps a pilot whose poor bark is prest With many a merciless o'er-mastering wave.

Crashaw. They are over-mastered with a score of drunkards, the only soldiery left about them, or else comply with all rapines and violences.

Milton on Education.

OVER-OFFICE, v. a. Over and office. To insult by virtue of an office.

This might be the fate of a politician which this ass over-offices. Shakspeare. Hamlet. OVER-OFFICIOUS, adj. Over and officious. Too busy; too importunate.

This is an over-officious truth, and is always at a man's heels; so that, if he looks about him, he must take notice of it. Collier.

OVERPASS', v. a. Over and to pass with disregard; to omit.

pass. To cross;

If the grace of him which saveth over-pass some, so that the prayer of the church for them be not received, this we may leave to the hidden judgments of righteousness.

Hooker.

The complaint about psalms and hymns might as well be over-past without any answer, as it is without any cause brought forth.

What can'st thou swear by now? -By time to come.

-That thou hast wronged in the time o'er-past.

Id.

Shakspeare. Arithmetical progression demonstrates how fast mankind would increase, over-passing as miraculous,

The ocean, over-peering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste, Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'er-bears your officers.

Shakspeare. Hamlet.

Your argosies with portly sail,
Do over-peer the pretty traffickers,
That curt'sy to them, do them reverence.

Shakspeare.
Mountainous error would be too highly heapt,
For truth to over-peer.
Id. Coriolanus.

Thus yields the cedar to the ax's edge, Whose top branch over-peered Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. Shakspeare.

They are invincible by reason of the over-peering mountains that back the one, and slender fortifications of the other to land-ward. Sandy's Journal. OʻVERPLUS, n. s. Over and plus. Surplus; what remains more than sufficient.

Some other sinners there are, from which that overplus of strength in persuasion doth arise. Hooker's Preface.

A great deal too much of it was made, and the overplus remained still in the mortar.. L'Estrange. It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune. Addison.

OVERPLY', v. a. Over and ply. To employ too laboriously.

What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, t'have lost them over-plied, In liberty's defence.

Milton's Poems.

OVERPOISE', v. a. & n.s.

Over and poise. To outweigh the noun signifies preponderance of weight.

:

Whether cripples who have lost their thighs will float; their lungs being able to waft up their bodies, which are in others over-poised by the hinder legs; we have not made experiment. Browne.

Horace, in his first and second book of odes, was still rising, but came not to his meridian till the third. After which his judgment was an over-poise to his imagination. He grew too cautious to be bold enough, for he descended in his fourth by slow degrees. Dryden.

The scale

O'er-poised by darkness, lets the night prevail; And day, that lengthened in the summer's height, Shortens till winter, and is lost in night. Creech.

OVERPOWER', v. a. Over and power. To be predominant over; to oppress by superiority.

Now in danger tried, now known in arms Not to be over-powered. Milton's Paradise Lost. As much light over-powers the eye, so they who have weak eyes, when ground is covered with snow, are wont to complain' of too much light. Boyle.

After the death of Crassus, Pompey found himself outwitted by Cæsar; he broke with him, overpowered him in the senate, and caused many unjust decrees to pass against him. Dryden.

The historians make these mountains the standards of the rise of the water; which they could never have been, had they not been standing when it did so rise and over-power the earth.

Woodward.

Inspiration is, when such an over-powering impression of any proposition is made upon the mind by God himself, that gives a convincing and induWatts's Logick.

bitable evidence of the truth and divinity of it.

OVERPRESS', v. a. Over and press. To bear upon with irresistible force; to overwhelm ; to crush.

Having an excellent horse under him, when he was over-pressed by some he avoided them. Sidney. Michael's arm main promontories flung, And over-pressed whole legions weak with sin. Roscommon.

When a prince enters on a war, he ought maturely to consider whether his coffers be full, his people rich by a long peace and free trade, not overpressed with many burthensome taxes.

Swift.

OVERPRISE', v. a. Over and prise. To

value at too high price.

Parents over-prize their children, while they behold them through the vapours of affection.

OVERREACH', v. a. Over and reach. To rise above; to circumvent; to go beyond.

What more cruel than man, if he see himself able by fraud to over-reach, or by power to overbear the laws whereunto he should be subject? Hooker. I have laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross over-reaching. Shakspeare.

The mountains of Olympus, Atho, and Atlas, over-reach and surmount all winds and clouds. Raleigh.

A man who had been matchless held In cunning, over-reached where least he thought, To save his credit, and for very spight, Still will be tempting him who foils him still. Milton. There is no pleasanter encounter than a trial of skill betwixt sharpers to over-reach one another.

L'Estrange. Forbidding oppression, defrauding and over-reaching one another, perfidiousness and treachery. Tillotson.

lie, or swear an unlawful oath, or over-reach in their We may no more sue for them than we can tell a cause, or be guilty of any other transgression.

Kettleworth.

Such a principle is ambition, or a desire of fame, gaged contrary to their natural inclinations in a by which many vicious men are over-reached, and englorious and laudable course of action.

Addison.

Sixteen hundred years after the earth was made, it was over-flowed in a deluge of water in such excess that the floods over-reached the tops of the highest mountains. Burnet.

deadly cunning a man that he was afraid to venture John had got an impression that Lewis was so himself alone with him; at last he took heart of grace; let him come up, quoth he, it is but sticking to my point, and he can never over-reach me.

OVERREAD', v. a.

History of J. Bull. Over and read. To

OVERRANK', adj. Over and rank. Too

roast too much.

'Twas burnt and dried away, And better 'twere that both of us did fast, Since of ourselves, ourselves are cholerick, Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.

Shakspeare. OVER-RULE', v. a. From over and rule. To influence with predominant power; to govern; to supersede: as, in law, to over-rule a plea is to reject it.

What if they be such as will be over-ruled with some one, whom they dare not displease?