A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Turning or looking opposite ways. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Controversial. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Controversial. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. controverse. ] Controversy. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. controversari, fr. controversus turned against, disputed. ] To dispute; to controvert. [ Obs. ] “Controversed causes.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disputant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. controversialis. ] Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

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Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a controversial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of controverting; controversy. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A controverser. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Controversies /plu>. [ L. controversia, fr. controversus turned against, disputed; contro- = contra + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse. ] 1. Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath a controversy with the nations. Jer. xxv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A suit in law or equity; a question of right. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment. 2 Sam. xv. 2.

Syn. -- Dispute; debate; disputation; disagreement; altercation; contention; wrangle; strife; quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Co- (=co- in co- sine) + versed sine. ] (Geom.) The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A region of country having covers; a hunting country. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ OF. estoveir, estovoir, necessary, necessity, need, prop. an infin. meaning to suit, be fit, be necessary. See Stover. ] (Law) Necessaries or supplies; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony out of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common of estovers. See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Extrorse. ] 1. The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Psychol.) the trait of being interested primarily in things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [ PJC ]

3. (Psychol.) the act of directing one's interests primarily toward things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [ PJC ]

1. (Psychol.) same as extroverted. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Introvert. ] The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Psychol.) directed inward; marked by interest in oneself or concerned with inner feelings. Contrasted with extroversive. [ Narrower terms: introvert, introverted, introvertive; introvertish, shut-in ]. Antonym: ambiversive. Also See: unsociable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Cf. Supersaturate. ] To saturate to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To say over; to repeat. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Scented excessively. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Overscrupulousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Scrupulous to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beyond the sea; foreign. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To search all over. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To season too highly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Oversaw p. p. Overseen p. pr. & vb. n. Overseeing. ] [ AS. oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and See. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook{ 2 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook{ 5 }. [ archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; -- the visual analogy to overhear. [ PJC ]

v. i. To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an overseer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Oversold p. pr. & vb. n. Overselling. ] 1. To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. [ 1913 Webster ]

One whose beauty
Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sell beyond means of delivery. [ Brokers' Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Oversold market (Brokers' Cant), a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold “short” to such an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excess; superfluity. [ Obs. ] “This overset of wealth and pomp. ” Bp. Burnel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to fall, or to fail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fill too full. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together.)
Syn. -- overhand. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Having excessive sexual desire or appeal.
Syn. -- highly-sexed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ AS. ofersceadwian. See Over, and Shade, and cf. Overshadow. ] To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overshadowed p. pr. & vb. n. Overshadowing. ] [ Cf. Overshade. ] 1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence; to be viewed as more important than. Milton. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. To cause to be sad or disappointing; to cast a sad shadow on; as, an accidental death overshadowed the joy of the festival. [ PJC ]

n. One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overshadowing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excel in shining; to outshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overshot p. pr. & vb. n. Overshooting. ] 1. To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf. “Not to overshoot his game.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration. [ PJC ]

2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fly beyond the mark. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. From Overshoot, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower; -- said of the jaws of some dogs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]