† 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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