Word Meanings - OVERBROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.

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• OVERBROW
  To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• IMPENDING
  Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• IMPEND
  To pay. Fabyan.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY
  The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.
• IMPENDENT
  Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• FOOL-LARGE
  Foolishly liberal. Chaucer.