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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.
Definition 2024
overhung
overhung
English
Verb
overhung
- simple past tense and past participle of overhang
Adjective
overhung (not comparable)
- 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[.]
- 1830 Thomas Carlyle, On History, Fraser's Magazine
- Suspended from above or from the top.
- an overhung door