Als his fair leman flying through a brook, He over-hent naught moved with her piteous look. Spenser. OVER-JOY', v. a. & n. s. Over and joy. To transport; to ravish: in the noun, transport; ecstasy. The mutual conference that my mind hath had, Makes me the bolder to salute my king With ruder terms; such as my wit affords, And over-joy of heart doth minister. Shakspeare. He that puts his confidence in God only, is neither over-joyed in any great good things of this life, nor sorrowful for a little thing. Taylor's Guide. The bishop, partly astonished and partly overjoyed with these speeches, was struck into a sad Hayward. silence for a time. 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. Good laws had been antiquated by the course of time, or over-laid by the corruption of manners. King Charles. Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers, which their infants over-lay. Thou us impowered Milton. Id. To fortify thus far, and over-lay, 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 and stupidity upon their minds. South's Sermons. 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. New milk that all the winter never fails, And all the summer over-flows the pails. Dryden. While our strong walls secure us from the foe, Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow. Id. It requires pains to find the coherence of abstruse writings: so that it is not to be wondered that St. Paul's epistles have, with many, passed for disjointed pious discourses, full of warmth and zeal and overflows of light, rather than for calm, strong, coherent Locke. reasonings all through. 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 overfloued, 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. When the overflowings of ungodliness make us afraid, the ministers of religion cannot better discharge their duty of opposing it. Rogers. This oft by mariners are shown, Earl Godwin's castles overflown. OVER-FLY', v. a. by flight. Locke. Though putting the mind unprepared upon an u usual stress ought to be avoided: yet this must no run it, by an over-great shyness of difficulties, into lazy saunting about obvious things. OVER-GROW', v. a. &v.n. Over and grow OVER-GROWTH', n. s. To cove wit growth; to grow beyond the fit and natural size to rise above: overgrowth is exuberant or ex cessive growth. Roof, and floor, and walls, were all of gold, Spenser. One part of his army, with incredible labour, cu away through the thick and over-grown woods, and so came to Solyman. Knolles. The over-growth of some complexion, Swift. Over and fly. To cross By an over-forwardness in courts to give countenance to frivolous exceptions, though they make nothing to the true merit of the cause, it often happens that causes are not determined according to their merits. Hale. OVER-FREIGHT', v. a.; pret. overfreighted; part. over-fraught. Over and freight. To load too heavily; to fill with too great quantity. A boat over-freighted with people, in rowing down the river, was, by the extreme weather, sunk. Carew. Grief, that does not speak, 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, Shakspeare. Henry V. OVER-GO', v. a. Over and go. To surpass ; to excel. Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason. Shakspeare. The fortune in being the first in an invention dot! cause sometimes a wonderful over-growth in riches. Васоп. Too numerous. Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks To stop their over-growth, as inmate guests 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-grou the poles, some advise to strike off their heads with a long switch. Mortimer. Him for a happy man I own, Whose fortune is not over-grown. OVER-HALE', v. a. spread over. Over and hale. Swift. Το The welked Phoebus gan availe OVER-HANG', v. a. & v. n. Over and hang. To jut over; to impend over. Lend the eye a terrible aspect, O er-hang and jutty his confounded base. 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, 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 To over-look the entertainment before him, and languish for that which lies out of the way, is sickly and servile. Collier. The original word signifies an over-looker, or one who stands higher than his fellows and over-looks them. 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-MASTED, 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. Crashate. 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-MATCH', v. a. & n. s. Over and match. To be too powerful; to conquer; to one of superior power; one not to be overcome. oppress by superior force: the noun signifies I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves. Shakspeare. Sir William Lucy, with me Set from our o'er-matched forces forth for aid. Id. Spain is no over-match for England, by that which leadeth all men; that is, experience and reason. Bacon. With respect to the blessings the world enjoys, even good men may ascribe over-much to themselves. Grew. An over-much use of salt, besides that it occasions thirst and over-much drinking, has other ill-effects. Locke. You have yourself your kindness over-paid, He ceases to oblige who can upbraid. Dryden. Wilt thou with pleasure hear thy lover's strains, And with one heavenly smile o'er-pay his pains? A single doit would overpay And who can grudge so small a grace Prior. To suppliants, natives of the place? Cowper. OVERPERCH', v. a. Over and perch. To fly over. With love's light wings did I v'er-perch these walls, Over and name. To For stony limits cannot hold love out. Shakspeare. OVERPEER', v. a. Over and peer. Το over-look; to hover above. It is now out of OVER-NAME', v. a. name in a series. Over-name them; and as thou namest them I will describe them. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. OVER-NIGHT, n. s. Over and night. Night before bed-time. If I had given you this at over-night, She might have been o'erta'en. Shakspeare. Will confesses, that for half his life his head ached every morning with reading men overnight. Addison. Over and office. To OVER-OFFICE, v. a. insult by virtue of an office. This might be the fate of a politician which this ass over-offices. Shakspeare. Hamlet. OVER-OFFIC'IOUS, 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 pass. To cross; to pass with disregard; to omit. 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. Id. -That thou hast wronged in the time o'er-past. Shakspeare. Arithmetical progression demonstrates how fast mankind would increase, over-passing as miraculous, use. The ocean, over-peering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste, 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. O'VERPLUS, 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. |