| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| ovarian | adjective | Alt. of Ovarial |
| ovarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to an ovary. |
| ovarium | noun | An ovary. See Ovary. |
| ovaries | plural | of Ovary |
| ovation | noun | A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves., Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite. |
| overact | verb t. | To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part., To act upon, or influence, unduly., To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. |
| overall | adverb | Everywhere. |
| overawe | verb t. | To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. |
| overbid | verb t. | To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. |
| overbow | verb t. | To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. |
| overbuy | verb t. | To buy too much., To buy at too dear a rate. |
| overdid | imp. | of Overdo |
| overdry | verb t. | To dry too much. |
| overdue | adjective | Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note. |
| overdye | verb t. | To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another). |
| overeat | verb t. & i. | To gnaw all over, or on all sides., To eat to excess; — often with a reflexive. |
| overest | superl. | Uppermost; outermost. |
| overeye | verb t. | To superintend; to oversee; to inspect., To see; to observe. |
| overfed | imp. & past participle | of Overfeed |
| overfly | verb t. | To cross or pass over by flight. |
| overget | verb t. | To reach; to overtake; to pass., To get beyond; to get over or recover from. |
| overhip | verb t. | To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass. |
| overjoy | verb t. | To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely., Excessive joy; transport. |
| overlap | verb t. & i. | To lap over; to lap., The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof., An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions. |
| overlay | verb t. | To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon., To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon., To put an overlay on., A covering., A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place., of Overlie |
| overlie | verb t. | To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. |
| overlip | noun | The upper lip. |
| overmix | verb t. | To mix with too much. |
| overpay | verb t. | To pay too much to; to reward too highly. |
| overply | verb t. | To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork. |
| overred | verb t. | To smear with red. |
| overrid | of Override | |
| overran | imp. | of Overrun |
| overrun | past participle | of Overrun, To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass., To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running., To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length., To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon., To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before., To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page., To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess., To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns. |
| oversay | verb t. | To say over; to repeat. |
| oversea | adjective | Beyond the sea; foreign., Alt. of Overseas |
| oversaw | imp. | of Oversee |
| oversee | verb t. | To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook., To omit or neglect seeing., To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. |
| overset | imp. & past participle | of Overset, To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building., To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot., To fill too full., To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset., An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage., An excess; superfluity. |
| oversow | verb t. | To sow where something has already been sown. |
| oversum | noun | A sum or quantity over; surplus. |
| overtax | verb t. | To tax or to task too heavily. |
| overtly | adverb | Publicly; openly. |
| overtop | verb t. | To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above., To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress., To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. |
| overwar | verb t. | To defeat. |
| overwax | verb i. | To wax or grow too rapindly or too much. |
| overwet | noun | Excessive wetness. |
| overwit | verb t. | To outwit. |
| ovicell | noun | One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma. |
| ovicyst | noun | The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata. |
| ovidian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid. |
| oviduct | noun | A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes. |
| oviform | adjective | Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf. |
| ovipara | noun pl. | An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; — opposed to Vivipara. |
| ovoidal | adjective | Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple. |
| ovology | noun | That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs. |
| ovulary | adjective | Pertaining to ovules. |
| ovulate | adjective | Containing an ovule or ovules. |
| ovulist | noun | A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist. |
| ovulite | noun | A fossil egg. |