Meaning

(poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over..

Definitions by Sense

1. (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
2. The area immediately above the eyebrow and below the forehead.
3. A projecting shelf of rock on the face of a cliff.

Example Sentences

18000, William Wordsworth, Michael Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath.

The prints of the Matlock cliffs on the Derwent, which every body has seen, will give the stranger some idea of the rocks which overbrow the partially wooded ravines, and glens down which the streams tributary to the Dove descend.

With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale

If the man thall have a Mole on the overbrow, then let fuch a perfon refrayne from marriage altogether , or all his life time; for that such a person (if he marry) shall have five wives in his lifetime.

I could not say that he didn't give the matter consideration, but while I noticed once in a while, by the lifting of an eyebrow or a slight corrugation of the overbrow, that the gubernatorial mind seemed to have some slight premonitory symptom of the induction of a thought, it passed off without apparent fruition.

As I translated, however, Valeo's face contorted, his overbrow furrowing as he picked at his food.

For reasons of safety it was decided to drill off the overbrow and to blast it at one time to break 30,000 tons.

Word Forms

• overbrows
• overbrowing
• overbrowed

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Use overbrow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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