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Webster 1913 Edition


Overhung

O′ver-hung′

,
Adj.
1.
Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
Carlyle.
2.
Suspended from above or from the top.
Overhung door
,
a sliding door, suspended door, suspended from the top, as upon rollers.

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overhung

overhung

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Verb

overhung

  1. simple past tense and past participle of overhang

Adjective

overhung (not comparable)

  1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
    • 1830 Thomas Carlyle, On History, Fraser's Magazine
      [T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.]
  2. Suspended from above or from the top.
    an overhung door

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