O`ver*bend", v. i. To bend over. [R.]

O`ver*bid" (?), v. t. To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.

O`ver*bide" (?), v. t. To outlive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

O`ver*blow" (?), v. i. 1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] Spenser.

2. (Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an

overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper

octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

O`ver*blow", v. t. To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.

When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.

Waller.

O"ver*board` (?), adv. Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of

a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.

To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.

O`ver*boil" (?), v. i. To boil over or unduly.

Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it

overboil In the hot throng.

Byron.

O`ver*bold" (?), a. Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak.

-- O"ver*bold"ly, adv.

O"ver*book"ish (?), a. Excessively bookish.

O"ver*boun"te*ous, a. Bounteous to excess.

O`ver*bow" (?), v. t. To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary

direction. [Obs.] Fuller.

O`ver*breed" (?), v. t. To breed to excess.

O`ver*brim" (?), v. i. To flow over the brim; to be so full as to

overflow. [R.]

O`ver*brow" (?), v. t. To hang over like a brow; to impend over.

[Poetic] Longfellow.

Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath.

Wordsworth.

O`ver*build" (?), v. t. 1. To build over. Milton.

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