overlight

verb

1. (transitive)To illuminate too brightly.

   “Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.”

2. (transitive)To illuminate from above.

   “Thus the stereotype is overlighted by the archetype, just as in conventional Egyptian statuary the historical pharoah is often shown standing under the god, the wings of Horus.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)excessive light

   “An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle, insomuch as perpetual looking against the ſun would cause blindness.”

   “"The Lecture Hall was very tastefully decorated with palms and evergreens and the platform on which the statue of H. B. Blavatsky is placed had several wreaths of lotus flowers beautifully arrayed and the statue itself was bedecked with a profusion of the choicest lotuses and shone out, to great advantage, under the overlight which shed its subdued lustre amid the foliage round it.”

   “Upon entering the dining-room, the painting faced one from the opposite end of the room, receiving light from a large landscape window on the left, and an overlight of electricity by night, the room being otherwise in darkness.”

   “"When a few hundred gaily-colored aprons—bright green, changeable to gold, yellow with a silver overlight, pink, blue, cerise—are displayed in one moving picture, it is a very charming scene."”

   “"Cal stood on the neat porch and kept his finger on the bell until the harsh overlight flashed on and the night bolt rasped and Mrs. Bacon looked out.”

adj

1. (dated)Too light or frivolous; giddy.

   “Also that they be not overlight and wanton of behaviour.”