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overset

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overset  \O`ver*set"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Overset};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Oversetting}.  ] 
  1.  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.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  cause  to  fall,  or  to  tail;  to  subvert;  to  overthrow; 
  as  to  overset  a  government  or  a  plot.  --Addison. 
 
  3.  To  fill  too  full.  [Obs.]  --Howell. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overset  \O`ver*set"\,  v.  i. 
  To  turn,  or  to  be  turned,  over  to  be  upset.  --Mortimer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overset  \O"ver*set`\,  n. 
  1.  An  upsetting;  overturn;  overthrow;  as  the  overset  of  a 
  carriage. 
 
  2.  An  excess;  superfluity.  [Obs.]  ``This  overset  of  wealth 
  and  pomp.  ''  --Bp.  Burnel.