Overturn – Oxytone

Overturn

OVERTURN', verb transitive

1. To overset; to turn or throw from a basis or foundation; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

2. To subvert; to ruin; to destroy.

3. To overpower; to conquer.

O'VERTURN, noun State of being overturned or subverted; overthrow.

Overturnable

OVERTURN'ABLE, adjective That may be overturned. [Not much used.]

Overturned

OVERTURN'ED, participle passive Overset; overthrown.

Overturner

OVERTURN'ER, noun One that overturns or subverts.

Overturning

OVERTURN'ING, participle present tense Oversetting; overthrowing; subverting.

OVERTURN'ING, noun An oversetting; subversion; change; revolution.

Overvail

OVERVA'IL,

OVERVAL'UE, verb transitive To rate at too high a price.

Overvalue

OVERVAL'UE, v.t. To rate at too high a price.

Overveil

OVERVEIL, verb transitive To cover; to spread over.

Overvote

OVERVO'TE, verb transitive To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

Overwatch

OVERWATCH', verb transitive To watch to excess; to subdue by long want of rest.

Overwatched

OVERWATCH'ED, adjective Tired by too much watching.

Overweak

OVERWE'AK, adjective Too weak; too feeble.

Overweary

OVERWE'ARY, verb transitive To subdue with fatigue.

Overweather

OVERWEATHER, verb transitive overweth'er. [See Weather.] To bruise or batter by violence of weather.

Overween

OVERWEE'N, verb intransitive [seen is obsolete, except in composition. See the word.]

1. To think too highly; to think arrogantly or conceitedly.

2. To reach beyond the truth in thought; to think too favorably.

Overweening

OVERWEE'NING, participle present tense

1. Thinking too highly or conceitedly.

2. adjective That thinks too highly, particularly of one's self; conceited; vain; as overweening pride; an overweening brain.

Overweeningly

OVERWEE'NINGLY, adverb With too much vanity or conceit.

Overweigh

OVERWEIGH, verb transitive To exceed in weight; to cause to preponderate; to outweigh; to overbalance.

Overweight

OVERWEIGHT, noun Greater weight; preponderance.

Overwhelm

OVERWHELM', verb transitive

1. To overspread or crush beneath something violent and weighty, that covers or encompasses the whole; as, to overwhelm with waves.

2. To immerse and bear down; in a figurative sense; as, to be overwhelmed with cares, afflictions or business.

3. To overlook gloomily.

4. To put over. [Not used.]

O'VERWHELM, noun The act of overwhelming.

Overwhelming

OVERWHELM'ING, participle present tense Crushing with weight or numbers.

Ovicular

OVIC'ULAR, adjective [from Latin ovum, an egg.] Pertaining to an egg.

Oviduct

O'VIDUCT, noun [Latin ovum, an egg, and ductus, a duct.]

In animals, a passage for the egg from the ovary to the womb, or a passage which conveys the egg from the ovary.

Oviform

O'VIFORM, adjective [Latin ovum, egg, and forma, form.] Having the form or figure of an egg.

Ovine

O'VINE, adjective [Latin ovinus, from ovis, sheep.] Pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

Oviparous

OVIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin ovum, egg, and pario, to produce.]

Producing eggs, or producing young from eggs. Fowls and reptiles are oviparous animals.

Ovoid

O'VOID, adjective [Latin ovum, egg, and Gr. form.] Having the shape of an egg.

Ovolo

O'VOLO, noun In architecture, a round molding, the quarter of a circle; called also the quarter round.

Owe

OWE, verb transitive o. [Gr., Eng. own.]

1. To be indebted; to be obliged or bound to pay. The merchants owe a large sum to foreigners.

A son owes help and honor to his father.

One was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

Matthew 18:24.

OWE no man any thing, but to love one another. Romans 13:8.

2. To be obliged to ascribe to; to be obliged for; as, that he may owe to me all his deliverance.

3. To possess; to have; to be the owner of. [This is the original sense, but now obsolete. In place of it, we use own, from the participle. See Own.]

Thou dost here usurp the name thou owest not.

4. To be due or owing.

O deem thy fall not ow'd to man's decree.

[This passive form is not now used.]

OWE, verb intransitive To be bound or obliged.

Owing

OWING, participle present tense [This is used in a passive form, contrary to analogy, for owen or owed. But the use is inveterately established.]

1. Due; that moral obligation requires to be paid; as the money owing to a laborer for services, or to another country for goods.

2. Consequential; ascribable to, as the cause. Misfortunes are often owing to vices or miscalculations.

3. Imputable to as an agent. His recovery from sickness is owing less to his physician, than to the strength of his constitution.

Owl

OWL, noun [Latin ulula, ululo.]

A fowl of the genus Strix, that flies chiefly in the night.

Owler

OWL'ER, noun One that conveys contraband goods.

Owlet

OWL'ET, noun An owl, which see.

Owling

OWL'ING, noun The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England, contrary to the statute.

[This explanation of owling favors the derivation of the word from wool.]

OWL'-LIGHT, noun Glimmering or imperfect light.

OWL'-LIKE, adjective Like an owl in look and habits.

Own

OWN, adjective [See Owe and Ought.]

1. Belonging to; possessed; peculiar; usually expressing property with emphasis, or in express exclusion of others. It follows my, your, his, their, thy, her. God created man in his own image. Adam begat a son in his own likeness. Let them fall by their own counsel. He washed us from our sins in his own blood.

In the phrases, his own nations, his own country, the word own denotes that the person belongs to the nation or country.

2. own often follows a verb; as, the book is not my own that is, my own book.

3. It is used as a substitute.

That they may dwell in a place of their own 2 Samuel 7:10.

In this use, a noun cannot follow own

4. 'He came to his own and his own received him not, ' that is, his own nation or people; own being here used as a substitute, like many other adjectives.

OWN, verb transitive [from the adjective.]

1. To have the legal or rightful title to; to have the exclusive right of possession and use. A free holder in the United states owns his farm. Men often own land or goods which are not in their possession.

2. To have the legal right to, without the exclusive right to use; as, a man owns the land in front of his farm to the middle of the highway.

3. To acknowledge to belong to; to avow or admit that the property belongs to.

When you come, find me out and own me for your son.

4. To avow; to confess, as a fault, crime or other act; that is, to acknowledge that one has done the act; as, to own the faults of youth; to own our guilt. The man is charged with theft, but he has not owned it.

5. In general, to acknowledge; to confess; to avow; to admit to be true; not to deny; as, to own our weakness and frailty.

Many own the gospel of salvation more from custom than conviction.

Owned

OWNED, participle passive

1. The legal title being vested in; as, the property is owned by a company.

2. Acknowledged; avowed; confessed.

Owner

OWNER, noun The rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.

The ox knoweth his owner Isaiah 1:3.

The centurion believed the master and owner of the ship. Acts 27:11.

Ownership

OWNERSHIP, noun Property; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title. The ownership of the estate is in A; the possession is in B.

Owning

OWNING, participle present tense

1. Having the legal or just title to.

2. Acknowledging; avowing; confessing.

Owre

OWRE, noun [Latin urus.] A beast. [Not used.]

Owse

OWSE, noun Bark of oak beaten or ground to small pieces.

Owser

OW'SER, noun Bark and water mixed in a tan-pit.

Ox

OX, noun plural oxen. pronoun ox'n.

The male of the bovine genus of quadrupeds, castrated and grown to his size or nearly so. The young male is called in America a steer. The same animal not castrated is called a bull. These distinctions are well established with us in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When we speak of wild animals of this kind, ox is sometimes applied both to the male and female, and in zoology, the same practice exists in regard to the domestic animals. Sop in common usage, a pair of bulls yoked may be sometimes called oxen. We never apply the name ox to the cow or female of the domestic kind. Oxen in the plural may comprehend both the male and female.

Ox-Eye

OX'-EYE, noun [ox and eye.] A plant of the genus Buphthalmum; another of the genus Anthemis; also, the ox-eye daisy or Chrysanthemum.

Ox-Eyed

OX'-EYED, adjective Having large full eyes, like those of an ox.

Oxalate

OX'ALATE, noun [See Oxalic.] In chimistry, a salt formed by a combination of the oxalic acid with a base.

Oxalic

OXAL'IC, adjective [Gr. sorrel, , acid.]

Pertaining to sorrel. The oxalic acid is the acid of sorrel.

Oxbane

OX'BANE, noun A plant, buphonos.

Oxfly

OX'FLY, noun A fly hatched under the skin of cattle.

Oxgang

OX'GANG, noun [ox and gang, going.] In ancient laws, as much land as an ox can plow in a year; said to be fifteen acres, or as others allege, twenty acres.

Oxheal

OX'HEAL, noun A plant.

Oxiodic

OXIOD'IC, adjective Pertaining to or consisting of the compound of oxygen and iodine.

Oxlike

OX'LIKE, adjective [ox and like.] Resembling an ox.

Oxlip

OX'LIP, noun A plant, the cowslip.

Oxstall

OX'STALL, noun A stall or stand for oxen.

Oxtongue

OXTONGUE, noun ox'tung. A plant of the genus Picris.

Oxy-Iodine

OXY-I'ODINE, noun In chimistry, a compound of the chloriodic and oxiodic acids.

Oxycrate

OX'YCRATE, noun [Gr. acid, and to mix.]

A mixture of water and vinegar. [Little used.]

Oxyd

OX'YD, noun [Gr. acid, sharp, vinegar.]

In chimistry, a substance formed by the combination of a portion of oxygen with some base; or a substance combined with oxygen, without being in the state of an acid.

Oxydability

OXYDABIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being converted into an oxyd.

Oxydable

OX'YDABLE, adjective Capable of being converted into an oxyd.

Oxydate

OX'YDATE, verb transitive To convert into an oxyd, as metals and other substances, by combination with oxygen. It differs from acidify, to make acid, or to convert into an acid, as in oxydation the acid that enters into combination is not sufficient to form an acid.

Oxydated

OX'YDATED, participle passive Converted into an oxyd.

Oxydating

OX'YDATING, participle present tense Converting into an oxyd.

Oxydation

OXYDA'TION, noun The operation or process of converting into an oxyd, as metals or other substances, by combining with them a certain portion of oxygen.

Oxydize

OX'YDIZE, verb transitive To oxydate, which see.

Oxydized

OX'YDIZED, participle passive Oxydated.

Oxydizement

OX'YDIZEMENT, noun Oxydation.

Oxydizing

OX'YDIZING, participle present tense Oxydating. [Oxydize and its derivatives are now more generally used than oxydate, though there seems to be no ground for the preference.]

Oxygen

OX'YGEN, noun [Gr. acid, and to generate.]

In chimistry, oxygen or oxygen gas is an element or substance so named from its property of generating acids; it is the respirable part of air, vital air, or the basis of it; it is called the acidifying principle, and the principle or support of combustion. Modern experiments, however, prove that it is not necessary in all cases to combustion or to acidity. oxygen is a permanently elastic fluid, invisible, inodorous, and a little heavier than atmospheric air. In union with azote or nitrogen, it forms atmospheric air, of which it constitutes about a fifth part. Water contains about 85% of it, and it exists in most vegetable and animal products, acids, salts and oxyds. It forms 50% of silex, 47 of alumin, 28 of lime, 40 of magnesia, 17 of potash, and 25 of soda.

Oxygenate

OX'YGENATE, verb transitive To unite or cause to combine with oxygen, without the evolution of heat or light; to acidify by oxygen.

Oxygenated

OX'YGENATED, participle passive United with oxygen.

Oxygenating

OX'YGENATING, participle present tense Uniting with oxygen.

Oxygenizable

OX'YGENIZABLE, adjective Capable of being oxygenized.

Oxygenize

OX'YGENIZE, verb transitive To oxygenate, which see.

Oxygenized

OX'YGENIZED, participle passive United with oxygen.

Oxygenizement

OX'YGENIZEMENT, noun Oxygenation.

Oxygenizing

OX'YGENIZING, participle present tense Oxygenating.

Oxygenous

OXYG'ENOUS, adjective Pertaining to oxygen, or obtained from it.

Oxygon

OX'YGON, noun [Gr. sharp, and an angle.]

A triangle having three acute angles.

Oxymel

OX'YMEL, noun [Gr. acid, and honey.]

A mixture of vinegar and honey.

Oxytone

OX'YTONE, adjective [Gr. sharp, and tone.]

Having an acute sound.

OX'YTONE, noun An acute sound.