OVERSEER, an officer in the ordnance department, who superintends the artificer in the construction of works, &c.
OVERSLAGH, as a military phrase, which is derived from the Dutch, to skip over, will be better explained by the following table.—For instance, suppose 4 battalions, each consisting of 8 captains, are doing duty together, and that a captain’s guard is daily mounted: if in the first regiment the second captain is doing duty of deputy adjutant-general; and the 4th and 7th captains in the second are acting, one as aid-de-camp, the other as brigade major; the common duty of these three captains must be overslaghed, that is skipped over, or equally divided among the other captains.
Table of Explanation.
| No. of captains. | Heads of each column. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regiments. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| Pennslvania. | 8 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 26 |
| Georgia. | 8 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 |
| Massachu’s. | 8 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | |
| Virginia. | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 22 | 29 | ||
| Total. | 32 | ||||||||
N. B. The three blanks shew where the overslaughs take place.
OVERTHROW, total defeat, discomfiture, rout.
OUEST ou Occident, Fr. One of the four cardinal points of the world, or the west.
OURAGAN, Fr. A violent tempest.
OUTBAR, to shut out by fortification.
OUT-GUARD. See [Out-posts].