Lark and Excess

noun

• North American songbirds having a yellow breast.
  • synonyms: meadowlark
• A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
  • synonyms: pipit, titlark
• Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
• Any carefree episode.
  • synonyms: escapade

verb

• Play boisterously.
  • usage: "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • synonyms: frolic, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

• (v.i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
• (n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks or horned by the shore larks or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
• (v.i.) A frolic; a jolly time.
• (v.i.) To sport; to frolic.

• English, American: From the English word for the type of songbird
• English: Lark

noun

• A quantity much larger than is needed.
  • synonyms: surplus, surplusage, nimiety
• Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.
  • synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness
• The state of being more than full.
  • synonyms: surfeit, overabundance
• Excessive indulgence.
  • usage: "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"
  • synonyms: overindulgence

adjective

• More than is needed, desired, or required.
  • usage: "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
  • synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus

• (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
• (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
• (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.