OVERBROW

Etymology

Verb

overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)

(poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.

Source: Wiktionary


O`ver*brow", v. t.

Definition: To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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