Definition of Overthin

1. too thin [adj] - See also: thin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthin

overteem
overteems
overtempt
overtempted
overtempting
overtempts
overtest
overtested
overtesting
overtests
overtheorize
overtheorized
overtheorizes
overtheorizing
overthick
overthin (current term)
overthink
overthinker
overthinkers
overthinking
overthinks
overthought
overthrew
overthrow
overthrowal
overthrowals
overthrower
overthrowers
overthroweth
overthrowing

Literary usage of Overthin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"As the stools become diseased or are weakened by successive cuttings, the stand is likely to become overthin. It is often advisable to improve it by seeding ..."

2. Diamonds: A Study of the Factors that Govern Their Value by Frank Bertram Wade (1916)
"... and the overthin stone should be avoided, and only a fairly well- made stone accepted. It is only fair to add that the absolutely well-made stone, ..."

3. Reports of the Immigration Commission by William Paul Dillingham (1911)
"... their tendency, when paid on a straight rate per acre, to overthin in the spring in order to have less beets to harvest in the fall, is overcome. ..."

4. Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee Appointed by the by Board of Agriculture, Committee on British Forestry, Great Britain (1903)
"That ivas an inducement to overthin. I am not referring to Scone just now, but to my experience on other estates. 2642. I suppose also that in many wood ..."

5. Transactions of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Artby University of Pennsylvania, University Museum by University of Pennsylvania, University Museum (1904)
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