Definition of "overset" []

• To throw into a confused or disturbed state; upset: "The news is sure to overset him” ( Charles Dickens). (verb-transitive)
• Printing To set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed. (verb-transitive)
• Printing To set too much type for (a given space). (verb-transitive)
• Printing To set too much material for a given space. (verb-intransitive)
• Printing Too much typeset matter. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "How "overset" I was all yesterday by the fierce pain I had suffered, and the want of sleep, and worst of all, I think, the chloroform I had/swallowed/, I cannot describe."
• "“Help me,” said the poor fellow, as I drew nigh; but before I could reach the horses, they had turned rapidly round, one of the fore-wheels flew from its axle-tree, the chaise was overset, and the postillion flung violently from his seat upon the field."
• "A lemon posset was fine on flavour, but slightly overset."