† oversnowv.
poetic. Obsolete.
transitive. To whiten over with or as with snow.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] > cover or coat with white
whiteOE
besnowa1000
whiten?a1425
oversnow1609
candya1612
whitewash1722
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets v. sig. B2 Sap checkt with frost and lustie leau's quite gon. Beauty ore-snow'd, and barenes euery where.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 344 E're Age unstrung my Nerves, or Time o'resnow'd my Head.
1868 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life 19 Wherever day may give our road, By hills or hollows oversnow'd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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v.1609- to read geneva print
- to read in
- to read like a book
- to read lips
- to read mind
- to read off
- to read on
- to read on one side of the leaf
- to read on the lips
- to read one's shirt
- to read or write
- to read out
- to read out of meeting
- to read over
- to read right
- to read someone like a book
- to read someone like an open book
- to read something like a book
- to read the baby act
- to read the bones
- to read the line
- to read the riot act
- to read the room
- to read through
- to read up