v. t. To bend forward. [ R. ] Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Controverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Controverting. ] [ See Controversy. ] To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See Cover, v. t. ] 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. [ 1913 Webster ]

How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.

Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See Hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. See Covert, a. ] 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. Is. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. couverte. ] (Zool.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Law) Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Secretly; in private; insidiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Secrecy; privacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coverture, F.couverture. ] 1. Covering; shelter; defense; hiding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. découvert uncovered, OF. descovert. See Discover, Covert. ] (Law) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An uncovered place or part. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At discovert, uncovered. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + coverture: cf. OF. descoverture. ] 1. Discovery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Psychol.) A person who is extroverted; a person who is marked by an interest in others or concerned primarily with external reality. Contrasted with introvert. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. (Psychol.) directed outward; marked by an interest in other people or concerned primarily with external reality.
Syn. -- extrovert, extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroversive, extraversive. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The state or condition of being incontrovertible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Introverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Introverting. ] [ Pref. intro- + L. vertere, versum, to turn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To turn or bend inward. “Introverted toes.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To look within; to introspect. Lew Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who is introverted; one concerned predominantly with himself or his own feelings. Contrasted with extrovert. [ PJC ]

2. A person who is shy. [ PJC ]

3. (Zool.) A part that can be introverted{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences. Contrasted with extrospective.
Syn. -- introspective. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. marked by concern predominantly with oneself or one's own feelings. Contrasted with extroverted.
Syn. -- introvert, introvertive. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. somewhat introverted.
Syn. -- shut-in. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as introverted, 2.
Syn. -- introvert, introverted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ OF. overt, F. ouvert, p. p. of OF. ovrir, F. ouvrir, to open, of uncertain origin; cf. It. aprire, OIt. also oprire, L. aperire to open, operire to cover, deoperire to uncover. Perh. from L. aperire influenced by F. couvrir to cover. Cf. Aperient, Cover. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Opposite of hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. Constitution of the U. S. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In criminal law, an overt act is an open act done in pursuance and manifestation of a criminal design; the mere design or intent not being punishable without such act. In English law, market overt is an open market; a pound overt is an open, uncovered pound. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overtook p. p. Overtaken p. pr. & vb. n. Overtaking. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; also, to catch up with and move ahead of. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian. [ PJC ]

3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events. [ PJC ]

v. i. To talk to excess. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To task too heavily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tax or to task too heavily; as, a job that overtaxed his physical energies. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Too tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overthrew p. p. Overthrown p. pr. & vb. n. Overthrowing. ] 1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy; as, to overthrow a government. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gloucester ] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Baseball) To throw (a baseball) beyond; to throw too high and too far; to overshoot{ 1 }; as, the shortstop overthrew the first baseman. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrown; ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head. (b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. “Our overthwart neighbors.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. “Overthwart humor.” Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Across; crosswise; transversely. “Y'clenched overthwart and endelong.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. Across; from alde to side of. “Huge trees overthwart one another.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [ Obs. ] Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cross; to oppose. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [ Obs. ] Lord Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tilt over; to overturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sports) An extra period of time provided to play a game, beyond the end of the normal period allowed for the game, for the purpose of resolving a tie score; as, the team won in overtime. [ PJC ]

sudden death overtime an overtime{ 2 } in which the first team to score wins the game; -- contrasted with normal overtime{ 2 }, which is a fixed period of time during which either team may score as often as they can. [ PJC ]

v. t. To tire to excess; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To become too tired. Br. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give too high a title to. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Publicly; openly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To overwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weary excessively; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled
By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A translation of G. oberton. See Over, Tone. ] (Mus.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or “partial” tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overtopped p. pr. & vb. n. Overtopping. ] 1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. “To o'ertop old Pelion.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. [ 1913 Webster ]

If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. Becon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To soar too high. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]