Noun : After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.    From Dictionary.com. 

They may profit by an "overplus," or be paid by the length of a "run" of their plays, or may sell them out-right at once for a stipulated sum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

I was never so nauseated in my life with overplus of fallacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5: The Philomaths] Reference

An overplus is unthinkable, since no man can do more than his duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

The overplus goes into the Dry Docks, Arsenals, and Fortifications of.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780] Reference

Humor tends always to overplus of expression; wit is mathematically precise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

Nature must therefore have provided some place for the escape of the overplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Nothing was left over — it was a discreditable thing to have any overplus at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

If it be, the overplus shall be divided between MD and FW beside usual allowance of MD.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Add together the number of dozens, the overplus, and the number of 4's in the overplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference

Doctors will not treat their own children because the overplus of sympathy is a hindrance to action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

For new style (which began September 14) divide by 4, take overplus from 3, multiply remainder by 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference

Cyrus Harding thought, not without reason, that the overplus of the lake must overflow on this side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Japan] Reference

Soldiers but if any overplus remaind of their allowance they should return it to the Store and receive their money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1775] Reference

The overplus, if any, to be given in bread to the poor of the parish that the trustees may consider proper objects of relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831] Reference

As he kept cows, and had more milk than was sufficient for his family, he distributed the overplus amongst his poor neighbours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference

He was undeniably handsome, and his looks were enhanced by a warm overplus of blood in the cheeks and a certain mellow fire in the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 11] Reference

The overplus was at the end of the year to be divided among four of the most ancient men, and four of the most ancient women of the parish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

As one who had lived, and were now to die by right, whatsoever is yet remaining, bestow that wholly as a gracious overplus upon a virtuous life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

On a bridge between Moruss and Asa, the woman who kept it and our drivers charged a double toll, and drank the overplus in schnapps before our faces!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference

In the eyes of many we are Western semi-barbarians, without an overplus of manners, means, comforts, knowledge, or many, if any, of the means of Eastern and refined enjoyment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Not from us proceeds this frightful overplus of shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

I will stuff their maw with overplus until their spirit dies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Souls of Black Folk] Reference

This overplus, after the deduction of expenses, is the real gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference

He has revealed it in the sonnets where there is Will in overplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

It may be observed, without overplus of irreverence, that this was larks for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science] Reference

But for all of these industrial reservists there was an overplus of men in Genoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me] Reference

And if you wynne I sweare the half is thyne; and for an overplus, an English Crowne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference

I'm booming, these days -- got health and spirits to waste -- got an overplus; and if I were at home, we would write a play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference

There is something concrete about butter-making which counteracts an overplus of sentiment -- especially when the butter will not come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

He was vexed that the error had been found out, for he had already nearly made up his mind to keep the overplus and say nothing about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference

The profits accruing to the nation from any foreign commerce should be calculated by the overplus of the importation above the exportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference