overplus

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When this process is performed with exact attention to chemical laws, so that the acid and alkali completely neutralize each other, leaving no overplus of either, the result is often very 160 palatable.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There is also an overplus of conversation through the thing that seems like talking at a mark for $2 a week.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill

Their silence is more eloquent than words, Their passing out is but life's overplus, Their tongues are tempered into two-edged swords.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

Surplus, sur′plus, n. the overplus: excess above what is required.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

A delay of twenty-four hours in the despatch, after posting, is rendered indispensable by the possibility there is of an overplus of such bulky packages on particular occasions.”

From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua