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单词 overbrow
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overbrown.

Forms: see over- prefix and brow n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, brow n.1, bree n.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + brow n.1 For parallels in other Germanic languages see discussion s.vv. bree n.1, brow n.1
Obsolete.
An eyebrow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [noun]
overbrowOE
breec1275
bryn1330
bent browc1380
superciliuma1398
brow1398
eyebrowa1450
winbrow?1473
beetle1532
eye-bree1543
bow1729
arch-brow1741
bush1859
OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Anglia (1944) 67 101 Puello [read puella] signum [habet] in supercilio dextro : mæden [hæfð] tacn on oferbruwe swiþran.
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 104 (MED) Who so euer depresseth one of his browes lightly, and nesshly reuokith it and dressith his sight on a thyng, tho delyten in faire thynges..Amonge also, the ouerbrowe is lad to the myddes.
1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 287 A foule of darke coloure..with redde ouerbrowes.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 2 Good to use, specially for ouerbrowes and eye liddes.
1574 R. MacIlmaine tr. P. de La Ramée Logike i. x. 33 There is..in hym..crafte..and lying: who..hathe his head & ouer browe alwayes scrapen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

overbrowv.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈbraʊ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbraʊ/
Forms: see over- prefix and brow v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, brow v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + brow v.
Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To overhang like a brow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (transitive)]
overhangOE
overdight1581
overdrip1587
overwhelm1593
overdrop1608
juttya1616
overbrow1718
overlean1827
overplume1854
overlop1893
oversail1912
1718 W. Bulstrode in G. Lemoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 119 Which takes off his meritorious Sufferings, and overbrows the whole System of Divine Goodness.
1747 W. Collins Odes 17 Strange Shades o'erbrow the Valleys deep.
1791 R. Polwhele Poems 9 We wander'd wild, and buffeted the Blast; And from the Hill, whose Summit overbrow'd Fair Isis' Towers, survey'd the heaving Cloud.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Woods in Winter in U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 Feb. 316/3 The hill, That overbrows the lonely vale.
1877 Galaxy July 70/1 Balconies that overbrow Field and city, vale and stream.
1894 F. Thompson in Merry Eng. 24 28 Perished cities whose great phantasmata O'erbrow the silent citizens of Dis.
1949 E. Blunden After Bombing 23 So passed the youth who sang of Clifton Grove, and cannot quite be banished through the age with power-house and with colliery overbrow the churchyard of his musing pilgrimage.
1965 ELH 32 508 Down from the ceiling by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath.

Derivatives

ˌoverˈbrowing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [adjective]
hangingc1330
pendentc1425
beetled1509
bending1567
prependent1592
propendent1593
overwhelming1599
pendulous1608
impendent1611
incumbent1719
imminent1727
impending1730
beetling1744
pensilec1750
pending1756
superincumbent1785
shelvy1811
overbrowing1814
propensive1819
oversailing1833
beetle-browed1842
overhung1845
overhanging1860
overleaning1865
overreaching1890
cantilevered1910
1814 R. Southey Roderick xiv. 170 Beneath the overbrowing battlements.
1884 E. Fawcett Alan Eliot in Song & Story 33 He beheld the great o'erbrowing stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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