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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶OWERGERET, ppl.adj. Appar. overloaded with detail.Sc. 1825 D. M. Moir MS. Letter (N.L.S.) (Aug.):
The account of the shipwreck [in Galt's Last of the Lairds] is certainly too circumstantial and owergeret.
[The authenticity of the word is somewhat uncertain.]
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