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They are not so ready to overbear the adversary
who goes out of his own country to meet them.

2. To domineer over; to overcome by
insolence.

O`ver*bear", v. i. To bear fruit
or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

O`ver*bear"ing, a. 1.
Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.

2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant;
domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.

--O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. --
O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

O`ver*bend" (?), v. t. To bend to
excess.

O`ver*bend", v. i. To bend
over. [R.]

O`ver*bid" (?), v. t. To bid or
offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.

O`ver*bide" (?), v. t. To
outlive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

O`ver*blow" (?), v. i.


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