O`ver*run" (?), v. t.
[imp. Overran (?); p. p.
Overrun; p. pr. & vb. n. Overrunning.
] 1. To run over; to grow or spread over in
excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine
overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch
grass.
Those barbarous nations that overran the
world.
Spenser.
2. To exceed in distance or speed of running;
to go beyond or pass in running.
Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and
overran Cushi.
2 Sam. xviii. 23.
3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond;
as, one line overruns another in length.
&fist; In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its
bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading
upon.
None of them the feeble overran.
Spenser.
5. (Print.) (a) To
carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next
after, or next before. (b) To extend the
contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or
page.
O`ver*run", v. i. 1.
To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be
beyond, or in excess.
Despised and trodden down of all that
overran.
Spenser.
2. (Print.) To extend beyond its due
or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement,
overruns.
