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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.

   “For ſtill thy eyes, vvhich I may call the ſea, / Do ebbe and flovve vvith teares, the Barke thy body is: / Sayling in this ſalt floud, the vvindes thy ſighes, / Who raging vvith thy teares and they vvith them, / VVithout a ſudden calme vvill ouerſet / Thy tempeſt toſſed body.”

2. fiil To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.

   “O Lord, O Lord, ſhe's mad, poor Young VVoman, Love has turn'd her ſenſes, her Brain is quite overſet.”

3. fiil To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.

   “[H]ad not the old Man run and fetch'd me a Cordial, I believe the ſudden Surprize of Joy had overſet Nature, and I had dy'd upon the Spot.”

4. fiil To translate (a text).

   “Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the authentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.”

5. fiil To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
6. fiil To recover from (an illness).
7. fiil To cover (the surface of something) with objects.

   “Item, the bishop's great mitre, all oversett with orient pearle and stones, and silver ourgilt, the haill mitre extending to 5 pound 15 ounce weight.”

8. fiil To oppress or overwhelm (someone, their thoughts, etc.); to beset; also, to overpower or overthrow (someone, an army, a people, etc.) by force; to defeat, to overwhelm.

   “[…] Brennus [i.e., Brennius] entending to haue more lande or all, aroſe againſt his brother Belyne [Belinus], and made vpon him ſharpe and mortall warre. In the which warre Brennus was ouerſet and compelled to flie the lande, and to ſayle to Armorica, nowe named little Briteyn, […]”

9. fiil To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).

   “[T]he more they [holy plants] vvere oppreſsd and overſet vvith the vveight of Perſecution, the faſter, ſtronger, and ſtreighter they grevv up.”

10. fiil To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload.
11. fiil To come to rest over (something); to settle.

    “It [tobacco] is a good Companion to one that converſeth vvith dead Men [i.e., reads books], for if one hath been poring long upon a Book, or is toil'd vvith the Pen, and ſtupified vvith Study, it quickneth him, and diſpels thoſe Clouds that uſually o'erſet the Brain.”

12. fiil To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax.

    “For thieves love among themselves: and so do the covetous of the world, as the usurers and publicans, which brought in great the emperor's tribute, and to make their most advantage, did overset the people.”

13. fiil To recover (money) given in an exchange.

    “[H]e that dealeth in barter muſt be very circumſpect, and the Money giuen in barter cannot be overſet.”

14. fiil To coil or stow away (a cable, a rope, etc.).
15. fiil To turn, or to be turned, over; to capsize; to, or to be, upset.

    “[T]his Raft vvas ſo unvveildy, and ſo overloaden, that after I vvas enter'd the little Cove, vvhere I had landed the reſt of my Goods, not being able to guide it ſo handily as I did the other, it overſet, and threvv me and all my Cargoe into the VVater; […]”

16. fiil Of a person or thing (such as an organization or plan): to become unbalanced or thrown into confusion; to be put into disarray.

    “But, while kingdoms overset, / Or lapse from hand to hand, / Thy leaf shall never fail, nor yet / Thine acorn in the land.”

17. sıfat Capsized, overturned, upset.

    “They groped their way, pushing and panting, to the road again, where, beholding the overset buggy with its wheels ludicrously in the air, they suddenly seized and shook each other, and in an outburst of hilarious ecstasy, fairly laughed until the tears came into their eyes.”

18. sıfat Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.
19. isim Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
20. isim An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.
21. isim An excess, a surplus.

    “And vvith this overſet of vvealth and pomp, that came on men in the decline of their parts and age, they, vvho vvere novv grovving into old age, became lazy and negligent in all the true concerns of the Church: […]”