adj. (old).—More or less in liquor: see DRINKS and SCREWED.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie. Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somewhat OVERSEENE.

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  d. 1654.  N. L’ESTRANGE [THOMS (1838), Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 54.] He heard he tooke a Cuppe too much at Ipswich, and was sorry for him he should be so much OVERSEENE.

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  1847.  HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v.

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