Overhung
[,ovɚ'hʌŋ]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Overhang
(a.) Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
(a.) Suspended from above or from the top.
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounded it, and the range of mountain above mountain by which it was overhung. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The sword overhung the emperor and spurred him to incessant activity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These were the flat cloth plate, vertical post, overhung arm, vertically reciprocating needle, and continuous thread. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Roderick