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Definition of Overbrow
1. v. t. To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
Definition of Overbrow
1. Verb. (poetic transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbrow
1. to overhang like a brow [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbrow
Literary usage of Overbrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"Arriving nt the verge Of a dim umbrage hoar, such as is seen Beneath green loaves
and gloomy branches oft To overbrow a bleak and Alpine cliff." § 19. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... such as is seen, Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft To overbrow a
bleak and alpine cliff. And, where they stood, before them, as it seem'd, ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1838)
"... and small, that gleam'd Was overbrow'd by a gigantic head, Strangely in wrath,
as though some spirit unclean Within that corporal tenement install'd, ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"2. Referring to that which overflows: spec. wash; see FLOOD. overhang, n. Spec,
eaves, overbrow. overhang, vi impend (literary or rare); spec, beetle, ..."
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