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Opossum
  • (n.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana

    Oppidan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of a town.

    Oppilate
  • (v. t.) To crowd together

    Opponent
  • (a.) Situated in front
  • (n.) One who opposes

    Opportune
  • (a.) Convenient
  • (v. t.) To suit.

    Opportunist
  • (n.) One who advocates or practices opportunism.

    Opportunity
  • (n.) Convenience of situation

    Opposable
  • (a.) Capable of being opposed or resisted.

    Oppose
  • (n.) To compete with
  • (v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition

    Opposite
  • (a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different
  • (n.) One who opposes

    Opposition
  • (n.) Repugnance

    Oppress
  • (v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon

    Opprobrious
  • (a.) Expressive of opprobrium

    Opprobrium
  • (n.) Disgrace

    Oppugn
  • (v. t.) To fight against

    Optative
  • (a.) Expressing desire or wish.
  • (n.) Something to be desired.

    Optical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye

    Optician
  • (a.) One skilled in optics.

    Optics
  • (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision

    Optimism
  • (n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view

    Optimist
  • (n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

    Option
  • (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant

    Optometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses

    Optometrist
  • (n.) One who is skilled in or practices optometry.

    Optometry
  • (n.) "The employment of any means, other than the use of drugs, for the measurement of the powers of vision and adaptation of lenses for the aid thereof

    Opulence
  • (n.) Wealth

    Opulent
  • (a.) Having a large estate or property

    Opuntia
  • (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants

    Opus
  • (n.) A work

    Or
  • (conj.) A particle that marks an alternative
  • (n.) Yellow or gold color
  • (prep. & adv.) Ere

    Ora
  • (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling

    Oracle
  • (n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise
  • (v. i.) To utter oracles.

    Oracular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle

    Oral
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth

    Orange
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an orange
  • (n.) The color of an orange

    Oration
  • (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner
  • (v. i.) To deliver an oration.

    Orator
  • (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties

    Orb
  • (n.) A blank window or panel.
  • (v. i.) To become round like an orb.
  • (v. t.) To encircle

    Orbicular
  • (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb

    Orbit
  • (n.) An orb or ball.

    Orchard
  • (n.) A garden.

    Orchestra
  • (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass

    Orchestrion
  • (n.) A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

    Orchid
  • (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae.

    Orchis
  • (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species

    Orchitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the testicles.

    Ord
  • (n.) An edge or point

    Ordain
  • (v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions

    Ordeal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
  • (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision

    Order
  • (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation
  • (v. i.) To give orders

    Ordinal
  • (a.) Indicating order or succession
  • (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

    Ordinance
  • (n.) An established rite or ceremony.

    Ordinand
  • (n.) One about to be ordained.

    Ordinarily
  • (adv.) According to established rules or settled method

    Ordinary
  • (a.) According to established order
  • (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries

    Ordinate
  • (a.) Well-ordered
  • (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured
  • (v. t.) To appoint, to regulate

    Ordination
  • (n.) Disposition

    Ordnance
  • (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare

    Ordonnance
  • (n.) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole

    Ordovician
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian
  • (n.) The Ordovician formation.

    Ordure
  • (n.) Defect

    Ore
  • (n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless

    Oread
  • (n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

    Orfray
  • (n.) The osprey.

    Organ
  • (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine
  • (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs

    Orgasm
  • (n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action

    Orgiastic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.

    Orgy
  • (n.) A frantic revel

    Oriel
  • (n.) A bay window.

    Orient
  • (a.) Bright
  • (n.) A pearl of great luster.

    Orifice
  • (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.

    Oriflamme
  • (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle.

    Origin
  • (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds

    Oriole
  • (n.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black

    Orion
  • (n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye

    Orle
  • (n.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border

    Ormolu
  • (n.) A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains

    Ornament
  • (n.) That which embellishes or adorns
  • (v. t.) To adorn

    Ornate
  • (a.) Adorned
  • (v. t.) To adorn

    Ornithology
  • (n.) A treatise or book on this science.

    Orography
  • (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems

    Oroide
  • (n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.

    Orology
  • (n.) The science or description of mountains.

    Orotund
  • (a.) Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness
  • (n.) The orotund voice or utterance

    Orphan
  • (a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
  • (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother
  • (v. t.) To cause to become an orphan

    Orpharion
  • (n.) An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.

    Orphean
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician

    Orpheus
  • (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre

    Orphic
  • (a.) Pertaining to Orpheus

    Orphrey
  • (n.) A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics

    Orpiment
  • (n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral

    Orpine
  • (n.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America

    Orrery
  • (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc

    Orris
  • (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked

    Ort
  • (n.) A morsel left at a meal

    Orthocenter
  • (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect

    Orthoclase
  • (n.) Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other

    Orthodox
  • (a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like

    Orthoepy
  • (n.) The art of uttering words correctly

    Orthogonal
  • (a.) Right-angled

    Orthography
  • (n.) A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.

    Orthomorphic
  • (a.) Having the right form.

    Orthopteran
  • (n.) One of the Orthoptera.

    Orthopterous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orthoptera.

    Orthorhombic
  • (a.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other

    Orthoscopic
  • (a.) Giving an image in correct or normal proportions

    Orthotropic
  • (a.) Having the longer axis vertical

    Orthotropous
  • (a.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle

    Ortolan
  • (n.) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings

    Oryx
  • (n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O

    Os
  • (n.) A bone.

    Oscan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
  • (n.) The language of the Osci.

    Oscillate
  • (v. i.) To move backward and forward

    Oscillation
  • (n.) Fluctuation

    Oscillogram
  • (n.) An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

    Oscillograph
  • (n.) An apparatus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high

    Oscilloscope
  • (n.) An instrument for showing visually the changes in a varying current

    Oscine
  • (a.) Relating to the Oscines.

    Oscitancy
  • (n.) Drowsiness

    Osculant
  • (a.) Adhering closely

    Osculate
  • (v. i.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them
  • (v. t.) To kiss.

    Osculation
  • (n.) The act of kissing

    Osier
  • (a.) Made of osiers
  • (n.) A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America

    Osiris
  • (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis

    Osmanli
  • (n.) A Turkish official

    Osmic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium

    Osmium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine

    Osmometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.

    Osmose
  • (n.) The action produced by this tendency.

    Osmosis
  • (n.) Osmose.

    Osnaburg
  • (n.) A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg, Germany.

    Oss
  • (n.) To prophesy

    Ossein
  • (n.) The organic basis of bone tissue

    Osseous
  • (a.) Composed of bone

    Ossicle
  • (n.) A little bone

    Ossification
  • (n.) The formation of bone

    Ossifrage
  • (n.) The lammergeir.

    Ossify
  • (v. i.) To become bone

    Ossuary
  • (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited

    Osteal
  • (a.) Osseous.

    Osteitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of bone.

    Ostensible
  • (a.) Capable of being shown

    Ostensive
  • (a.) Showing

    Ostentation
  • (n.) A show or spectacle.

    Ostentatious
  • (a.) Fond of, or evincing, ostentation

    Osteoblast
  • (n.) One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed

    Osteoclasis
  • (n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

    Osteoclast
  • (n.) A myeloplax.

    Osteoid
  • (a.) Resembling bone

    Osteology
  • (n.) The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

    Osteoma
  • (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone

    Osteopath
  • (n.) A practitioner of osteopathy.

    Osteoplastic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the replacement of bone

    Osteoplasty
  • (n.) An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied.

    Osteoporosis
  • (n.) An absorption of bone so that the tissue becomes unusually porous.

    Osteosarcoma
  • (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone

    Osteotome
  • (n.) Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.

    Osteotomy
  • (n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones

    Ostiary
  • (n.) One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church

    Ostiole
  • (n.) Any small orifice.

    Ostium
  • (n.) An opening

    Ostracize
  • (v. t.) To banish from society

    Ostrich
  • (n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species

    Ostrogoth
  • (n.) One of the Eastern Goths.

    Otalgia
  • (n.) Pain in the ear

    Other
  • (adv.) Otherwise.
  • (conj.) Either
  • (pron. & a.) Alternate

    Otic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear

    Otiose
  • (a.) Being at leisure or ease

    Otitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the ear.

    Otocyst
  • (n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle

    Otology
  • (n.) The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

    Otoscope
  • (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

    Otter
  • (n.) A corruption of Annotto.

    Ottoman
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks
  • (n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

    Oubliette
  • (n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall

    Ouch
  • (n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone

    Ought
  • (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Owned

    Ounce
  • (n.) A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back

    Our
  • (possessive pron.) Of or pertaining to us

    Ourselves
  • (pron.)

    Oust
  • (v. t.) To eject

    Out
  • (a.) Away
  • (interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of
  • (n.) A place or space outside of something
  • (v. i.) To come or go out
  • (v. t.) To cause to be out

    Outbid
  • (imp.) of Outbid
  • (p. p.) of Outbid
  • (v. t.) To exceed or surpass in bidding.

    Outboard
  • (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull

    Outbound
  • (a.) Outward bound.

    Outbrave
  • (v. t.) To excel in bravery o/ in insolence

    Outbreak
  • (n.) A bursting forth

    Outbuilding
  • (n.) A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house

    Outburst
  • (n.) A bursting forth.

    Outcast
  • (a.) Cast out
  • (n.) A quarrel

    Outcome
  • (n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else

    Outcrop
  • (n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface
  • (v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground

    Outcry
  • (n.) A vehement or loud cry

    Outdated
  • (a.) Being out of date

    Outdo
  • (v. t.) To go beyond in performance

    Outdraw
  • (v. t.) To draw out

    Outer
  • (a.) Being on the outside
  • (n.) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
  • (v.) One who puts out, ousts, or expels

    Outface
  • (v. t.) To face or look (one) out of countenance

    Outfall
  • (n.) A quarrel

    Outfield
  • (n.) A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead

    Outfit
  • (n.) A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land

    Outflank
  • (v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank

    Outflow
  • (n.) A flowing out
  • (v. i.) To flow out.

    Outgeneral
  • (v. t.) To exceed in generalship

    Outgo
  • (n.) That which goes out, or is paid out
  • (v. t.) To circumvent

    Outgrew
  • (imp.) of Outgrow

    Outgrow
  • (v. t.) To grow out of or away from

    Outhaul
  • (n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar

    Outhouse
  • (n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house

    Outing
  • (n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.

    Outland
  • (a.) Foreign

    Outlast
  • (v. t.) To exceed in duration

    Outlaw
  • (n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the benefit and protection of law

    Outlay
  • (n.) A laying out or expending.
  • (v. t.) To lay out

    Outlet
  • (n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out
  • (v. t.) To let out

    Outlier
  • (n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation

    Outline
  • (n.) A sketch composed of such lines

    Outlive
  • (v. t.) To live beyond, or longer than

    Outlook
  • (n.) One who looks out
  • (v. t.) To face down

    Outlying
  • (a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body

    Outmost
  • (a.) Farthest from the middle or interior

    Outnumber
  • (v. t.) To exceed in number.

    Outpace
  • (v. t.) To outgo

    Outplay
  • (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game

    Outport
  • (n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.

    Outpost
  • (n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy

    Outpour
  • (n.) A flowing out
  • (v. t.) To pour out.

    Output
  • (n.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body

    Outrage
  • (n.) Excess
  • (v. t.) To be guilty of an outrage

    Outrank
  • (v. t.) To exceed in rank

    Outreach
  • (v. t.) To reach beyond.

    Outride
  • (n.) A place for riding out.
  • (v. t.) To surpass in speed of riding

    Outrigger
  • (n.) A boat thus equipped.

    Outright
  • (adv.) Completely

    Outrun
  • (p. p.) of Outrun
  • (v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running

    Outsell
  • (v. t.) To exceed in amount of sales

    Outset
  • (n.) A setting out, starting, or beginning.

    Outshine
  • (v. i.) To shine forth.
  • (v. t.) To excel in splendor.

    Outshoot
  • (v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting

    Outside
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the outside
  • (adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of)
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is without

    Outsole
  • (n.) The outside sole of a boot or shoe.

    Outspend
  • (n.) Outlay

    Outspoken
  • (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly

    Outspread
  • (v. t.) To spread out

    Outstand
  • (v. i.) To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass
  • (v. t.) To resist effectually

    Outstare
  • (v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring

    Outstay
  • (v. t.) To stay beyond or longer than.

    Outstretch
  • (v. t.) To stretch out.

    Outstrip
  • (v. t.) To go faster than

    Outtake
  • (prep.) Except.

    Outvote
  • (v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given

    Outward
  • (a.) Foreign
  • (n.) External form

    Outwear
  • (v. t.) To last longer than

    Outweigh
  • (v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.

    Outwit
  • (n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired
  • (v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning

    Outwork
  • (n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc
  • (v. t.) To exceed in working

    Oval
  • (a.) Broadly elliptical.
  • (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

    Ovariotomy
  • (n.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries

    Ovaritis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.

    Ovary
  • (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit

    Ovate
  • (a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal

    Ovation
  • (n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves

    Oven
  • (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying

    Over
  • (a.) Upper
  • (adv.) Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side
  • (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places
  • (prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest

    overfill
  • (v. t.) To fill to excess

    Overfish
  • (v. t.) To fish to excess.

    Overflew
  • (imp.) of Overfly

    Overflow
  • (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid
  • (v. i.) To be superabundant
  • (v. t.) To flow over

    Overfly
  • (v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.

    Overglaze
  • (a.) Applied over the glaze

    Overgrow
  • (v. i.) To grow beyond the fit or natural size
  • (v. t.) To grow beyond

    Overhand
  • (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder
  • (adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
  • (n.) The upper hand

    Overhang
  • (n.) In a general sense, that which just out or projects
  • (v. i.) To jut over.
  • (v. t.) To hang over

    Overhaul
  • (v. t.) To gain upon in a chase

    Overhead
  • (adv.) Aloft

    Overhear
  • (v. t.) To hear again.

    Overheat
  • (v. t.) To heat to excess

    Overhung
  • (a.) Covered over
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overhang

    Overladen
  • (p. p.) of Overlade

    Overland
  • (a.) Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea
  • (adv.) By, upon, or across, land.

    Overlap
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. t. & i.) To lap over

    Overlay
  • (imp.) of Overlie
  • (n.) A covering.
  • (v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across

    Overlie
  • (v. t.) To lie over or upon

    Overload
  • (n.) An excessive load
  • (v. t.) To load or fill to excess

    Overlong
  • (a. & adv.) Too long.

    Overlook
  • (v. t.) Hence: To supervise

    Overlord
  • (n.) One who is lord over another or others

    Overly
  • (a.) Careless
  • (adv.) In an overly manner.

    Overman
  • (n.) An arbiter.

    Overmaster
  • (v. t.) To overpower

    Overmatch
  • (n.) One superior in power
  • (v. t.) To be more than equal to or a match for

    Overmuch
  • (a.) Too much.
  • (adv.) In too great a degree
  • (n.) An excess

    Overnight
  • (adv.) In the fore part of the night last past
  • (n.) The fore part of the night last past

    Overpass
  • (v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.
  • (v. t.) To go over or beyond

    Overpay
  • (v. t.) To pay too much to

    Overpersuade
  • (v. t.) To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.

    Overplus
  • (n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed

    Overpower
  • (n.) A dominating power.
  • (v. t.) To excel or exceed in power

    Overpressure
  • (n.) Excessive pressure or urging.

    Overprize
  • (v. t.) Toprize excessively

    Overproof
  • (a.) Containing more alcohol than proof spirit

    Overproportion
  • (v. t.) To make of too great proportion.

    Overrate
  • (n.) An excessive rate.
  • (v. t.) To rate or value too highly.

    Overreach
  • (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot
  • (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
  • (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning

    Overrefine
  • (v. t.) To refine too much.

    Override
  • (v. t.) To ride beyond

    Overripe
  • (a.) Matured to excess.

    Overrode
  • (imp.) of Override

    Overrule
  • (v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling
  • (v. t.) To rule or determine in a contrary way

    Overrun
  • (p. p.) of Overrun
  • (v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length
  • (v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

    Oversaw
  • (imp.) of Oversee

    Overseas
  • (adv.) Over the sea

    Oversee
  • (v. i.) To see too or too much
  • (v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.

    Oversell
  • (v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.

    Overset
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overset
  • (n.) An excess
  • (v. i.) To turn, or to be turned, over
  • (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail

    Overshoe
  • (n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth

    Overshoot
  • (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
  • (v. t.) To exceed

    Overshot
  • (a.) From Overshoot, v. t.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot

    Oversight
  • (n.) An overlooking

    Oversize
  • (v. t.) To cover with viscid matter.

    Overskirt
  • (n.) An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

    Oversleep
  • (v. i.) To sleep too long.
  • (v. t.) To sleep beyond

    Oversold
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Oversell

    Overspread
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overspread
  • (v. i.) To be spread or scattered over.
  • (v. t.) To spread over

    Overstate
  • (v. t.) To state in too strong terms

    Overstay
  • (v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of

    Overstep
  • (v. t.) To step over or beyond

    Overstock
  • (n.) Stock in excess.
  • (v. t.) To fill too full

    Overstrain
  • (v. i.) To strain one's self to excess.
  • (v. t.) To stretch or strain too much

    Overstride
  • (v. t.) To stride over or beyond.

    Oversupply
  • (n.) An excessive supply.
  • (v. t.) To supply in excess.

    Overt
  • (a.) Not covert

    Overvalue
  • (v. t.) To exceed in value.

    Overview
  • (n.) An inspection or overlooking.

    Overwear
  • (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.
  • (v. t.) To wear too much

    Overweening
  • (a.) Unduly confident
  • (n.) Conceit

    Overweigh
  • (v. t.) To exceed in weight

    Overwhelm
  • (n.) The act of overwhelming.
  • (v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.

    Overwind
  • (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

    Overwork
  • (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity
  • (v. t.) To decorate all over.

    Overworn
  • (v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil

    Overwrought
  • (p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively

    Overzealous
  • (a.) Too zealous.


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