overflush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overflushes
Etymology: From over- + flush.
Senses: examples: text: In his judgment in this case, the vice Chancellor Wigram refers to my decision in Woods v. Woods, in which I held, that under a gift of "all overflush to my wife towards her support and her family," the widow took the property subject to a trust for the family.
ref: 1848, The Law Journal Reports, page 233:
text: Every day there is an overflush that would be wasted but for the blessed tin can or the glass jar.
ref: 1906, The Independent - Volume 60, page 1366:
text: We have an overflush of money at present, but I hope to show the honourable member who is interesting himself in my affairs that the influence of money will dwindle rapidly.
ref: 1949, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 282, page 2036:
text: […] if my wife should marry then my will is that two thirds of my property not disposed of be sold and thirty pounds paid to each of my grand daughters Margaret Allen and Ivea Fox as they come of age and the other third to be sold at my wife's decease if the first sail amounts to sixty pound and any overflush of both sails to be equally divided between my four grand Children above named […]
ref: 2017, Douglas Allen, Reconstructing William Allen 1711-1799, page 421:
glosses: Surplus assets.
examples: text: Lady Albinia was allowed by all who knew her, to be one of the most admirable correctives to an overflush of youth .
ref: 1854 October, “Wild and Tame”, in Kentucky Garland, volume 1, number 1, page 42:
text: Of life and life's significant loveliness, Be reconcilement for the easy loss Of tendril graces that climb about the heart, And smother it with overflush of bloom.
ref: 1875, Cyclopædia of American Literature, page 913:
text: Margit , you've an overflush of sense in your composition. You put two thoughts where common folk such as me can only crush in one .
ref: 1898, William Edwards Tirebuck, Meg of the Scarlet Foot, page 189:
text: This is attributed to too wet a season and consequent overflush of feed .
ref: 1899, New Zealand. Department of Agriculture, Report, page 69:
text: Caution is necessary, for an overflush of imaginative enthusiasm can produce a situation in which the activity becomes an end in its own right rather than the means to an end.
ref: 2000, Tom Douglas, Basic Groupwork, page 76:
text: We were also so close together there, and if someone grew something and they got a flush of something, or an overflush of it, they'd call the next person and say, 'Would you want this or can you use some of this?
ref: 2018, David Todd Lawrence, Elaine J. Lawless, When They Blew the Levee:
glosses: An excess of something.
examples: text: If the bright ground be moved to and fro, this overflush of color may be, sometimes beautifully, shown, following the line or edge of the moving mass of strong color; and most distinct near the edge.
ref: 1876 April 21, Henry Hartshorne, “On Some Disputed Points in Physiological Optics”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 224:
text: Sepals: Pale brown largely covered with maroon overflush.
ref: 1959, G. C. K. Dunsterville, Leslie A. Garay, Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, page 68:
text: Persian Princess— Petals deep velvety red with overflush of purple.
ref: 1943, Herbertia - Volumes 9-11, page 33:
text: Pale greenish brown with heavy overflush of dark maroon-red at the base.
ref: 1986, Lindleyana, page 336:
glosses: A flush that appears over something.
A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
examples: text: While an overflush of marvellous grace Would master, a-sudden, all his face, Till the delicate nostril curved and swelled, and the glance an eloquent sparkle held, And a sense of song would come and go, Such as dreamers watched by Ariel know.
ref: 1873 November, Margaret J. Preston, “Alpenglow”, in Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume 7, number 1, page 63:
glosses: A flush that appears over something.
A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
examples: text: There was an overflush and I tried to run straight into it. Most racers set up before a flush and turn into it.
ref: 1983 January, Peter MIller, “Agony of a Ski Racer”, in Ski, volume 47, number 5, page 39:
glosses: A flush that appears over something.
A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
examples: text: This increase of typhoid fever was attributed to an overflush of the intercepting sewer in November, 1897, in consequence of which sewage was discharged into the Schuylkill river near the intake of the Queen Lane Pumping Station.
ref: 1899, Fourth Annual Message of Charles F. Warwick, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia- Volume 2, page 21:
text: Every now and then the outpouring of a house, or the overflush of a drain, sent a richly laden river flowing by , and then the children were busy and happy.
ref: 1915, William Babington Maxwell, The Ragged Messenger, page 128:
glosses: The act of overflushing.
examples: text: A treatment volume, in field usage is currently 1100 gals of chemical plus 10,000 bbls. of the aquifer water as an overflush.
ref: 1988, 4th Middle East Corrosion Conference: 11-13 January 1988, page 481:
text: The overflush consisted of 100 bbls of uncrosslinked 3000 ppm polymer, followed by one wellbore volume (~150 bbls) plus 450 bbls crude behind pipe.
ref: 1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63:
text: The first stage was 21.4 m³ crude oil preflush containing 2800-ppm paraffin dispersant, followed by 11.1 m³ treating mixture split into ten intervals with 0.5-m³ gelled oil pads followed by 19-m³ overflush containing 4000-ppm paraffin dispersant.
ref: 2022, Qiwei Wang, Flow Assurance, page 166:
glosses: A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
examples: text: With this type of proppant transport, the proppant bank will not be destroyed during the overflush of the diverter.
ref: 1992, M.J. Economides, A Practical Companion to Reservoir Stimulation, page P-54:
text: On the other hand, overflush systems contain a high percentage of active resin, and an overflush is required to push the excess resin away from the wellbore area to reestablish permeability. Only a residual amount of resin saturation, which should be concentrated at the sand contact points, should remain following the overflush.
ref: 2016, James G. Speight, Handbook of Hydraulic Fracturing, page 83:
text: This method is also carried out in three main steps namely, preflush, main flush, and overflush.
ref: 2022, Younes Noorollahi, Muhammad Nihal Naseer, Muhammad Mobin Siddiqi, Utilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells, page 105:
glosses: The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.