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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Berhymed p. pr. & vb. n. Berhyming. ] To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about. [ Sometimes use depreciatively. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blunder + head. ] A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nothingness. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From its color. ] 1. (Zool.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dovecote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. Eng. also dunderpoll, from dunder, same as thunder. ] A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Anat.) Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n. An interhemal spine or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Inter- + the Greek letter &unr_;. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch. -- n. An interhyal ligament or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Jolt, Jowl. ] A dunce; a blockhead. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The friar bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Log + head. ] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be at loggerheads,
To fall to loggerheads, or
To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull; stupid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The knapweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A mountain in Italy and Switzerland, 14, 690 feet high. According to WordNet, 14, 780 feet high [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred in England for hunting otters. Called also otter dog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. See Overhaul. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Overhaul. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Baseball) A throwing or pitching style that is overhanded; also an overhand{ 2 } pitch. [ PJC ]

a. 1. (Sewing) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Baseball, Cricket, Tennis, etc.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder; as, an overhand pitch; an overhand stroke. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Overhand knot. See Illustration of Knot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an overhand manner or style. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. performed with the arm moving above the shoulder; overhand{ 2 }; -- of methods of throwing, especially in baseball. Contrasted with underhand and sidearm.
Syn. -- overarm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overhung p. pr. & vb. n. Overhanging. ] 1. To impend or hang over. [ R. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hang over; to jut or project over. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To jut over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) 1. In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Exceedingly happy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too hardy; overbold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Too great haste. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overhauled p. pr. & vb. n. Overhauling. ] 1. To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To repair thoroughly; to make repairs on; -- usually implying major repairs and perhaps modifying improvements. [ PJC ]

To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. --
To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A major repair or a revision for the purpose of improvement. [ PJC ]

adv. Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. [ 1913 Webster ]

While overhead the moon
Sits arbitress. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Also used adjectively; as, an overhead crane, gear, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Overhead engine, a vertical steam engine in which the cylinder stands above the crank. --
Overhead work, a general term in manufactories for countershafting and gearing, when overhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as overhead expenses. [ PJC ]

2. A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also overhead compartment. [ PJC ]

3. (Sports) A stroke with a racket in which the ball is struck with the racket over the head, moving in a downward motion; also called overhead stroke. [ PJC ]

{ etc. } (Accounting) Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed charges, establishment charges, or (in a manufacturing business) administration charges, selling charges, and distribution charges, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overheard p. pr. & vb. n. Overhearing. ] [ AS. oferhiéran. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hear again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Superheat. ] To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. oferhelian. ] To hele or cover over. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]