† ˈoverdeal, n. Obs.
[f. over- 19 + deal n.]
A part left over or in excess; surplus, overplus.
1600 Holland Livy xl. xxxvi. 1083 The over-deale of twelve thousand footmen of Latines, and sixe hundred horse⁓men. 1610 ― Camden's Brit. i. 818 Concerning Berwicke haue heere now for an Ouerdeale, these verses of Maister I. Ionston. |