Word Meanings - OVERHANG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To impend or hang over. Beau. & Fl. 2. To hang over; to jut or project over. Pope.

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• 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
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• 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.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• IMPEND
  To pay. Fabyan.
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• PROJECT
  of projicere to project; pro forward + jacere to throw. See Jet a 1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. Vented much
• IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY
  The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.
• IMPENDENT
  Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.
• COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
  A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and