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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Overran

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Overrank

OVERRANK', adjective Too rank or luxuriant.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Overrun

OVERRUN', verb transitive

1. To run or spread over; to grow over; to cover all over. The sluggard's farm is overrun with weeds. Some plants unchecked will soon overrun a field. The Canada thistle is overrunning the northern parts of New England, as it has overrun Normandy.

2. To march or rove over; to harass by hostile incursions; to ravage. The south of Europe was formerly overrun by the Goths, Vandals and other barbarians.

3. To outrun; to run faster than another and leave him behind.

Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

2 Samuel 18:1.

4. To overspread with numbers. Were it not for the ibis, it has been supposed Egypt would be overrun with crocodiles.

5. To injure by treading down.

6. Among printers, to change the disposition of types and carry those of one line into another, either in correction, or in the contraction or extension of columns.

OVERRUN', verb intransitive To overflow; to run over.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Overrunner

OVERRUN'NER, noun One that overruns.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Overrunning

OVERRUN'NING, participle present tense Spreading over; ravaging; changing the disposition of types.