n. [ L. adverbium; ad + verbum word, verb: cf. F. adverbe. ] (Gram.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adverbialis: cf. F. adverbial. ] Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adverbial. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give the force or form of an adverb to. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an adverb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diverbium the colloquial part of a comedy, dialogue; di- = dis- + verbum word. ] A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. diverberatus, p. p. of diverberare to strike asunder; di- = dis- + verberare. See Verberate. ] To strike or sound through. [ R. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sounding through. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Involving little or no use of language; as, gestures are a form of nonverbal communication.
Syn. -- non-verbal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports. J. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively barren. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Over + battle, a. ] Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [ Obs. ] “Overbattle grounds.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. [ 1913 Webster ]

The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

--O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bend to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bend over. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To outlive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To blow over, or be subdued. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascribe an unwarranted importance to. [ PJC ]

3. (Music) To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery. [ PJC ]

3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric. [ PJC ]

adv. Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend. --
To go overboard, to go to an extreme; to overdo; as, he went overboard at the buffet and got an upset stomach. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. To boil over or unduly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor is discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil
In the hot throng. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively bookish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bounteous to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To breed to excess; as, the bulls were so huge and overbred no matador wanted to fight them. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [ Poetic ] Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did with a huge projection overbrow
Large space beneath. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To build over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To oppress by bulk; to overtower. [ Obs. & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too burdensome. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To burn too much; to be overzealous. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To buy too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To buy at too dear a rate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] (French Law) An authentic minute of an official act, or statement of facts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. proverbe, F. proverbe, from L. proverbium; pro before, for + verbum a word. See Verb. ] 1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. [ 1913 Webster ]

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. John xvi. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. Deut. xxviii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A drama exemplifying a proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Maxim; aphorism; apothegm; adage; saw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To name in, or as, a proverb. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool ? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with a proverb. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write or utter proverbs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. proverbialis: cf. F. proverbial. ] 1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. [ 1913 Webster ]

In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. “A proverbial obscurity.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A proverbial phrase. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Cf. F. proverbialiser. ] To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To echo. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]