overset Meaning, Definition & Usage

O`ver*set" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Overset; present participle & verbal noun Oversetting
Definitions
  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.
  2. To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot. Addison.
  3. To fill too full. Obs. Howell.
O`ver*set" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer.
O"ver*set` noun
Definitions
  1. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.
  2. An excess; superfluity. Obs. "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel.

Webster 1913