verb
definition
To hang over (something).
definition
To impend.
adjective
definition
Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
definition
Suspended from above or from the top.
example
an overhung door
Examples of overhung in a Sentence
A mist overhung the field and the hillsides were slippery with mud.
It is probable that what he had suffered during his first year in London had often reminded him of some parts of the satire in which Juvenal had described the misery and degradation of a needy man of letters, lodged among the pigeons' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome.
Many of the meres, overhung with thick beechwoods, are extremely beautiful.
Dotted about the town are open squares, with tanks or ponds overhung by trees.
The mouth (o) is in front of the tentacles, on the ventral side, and is overhung by a mobile praeoral hood, in which is the principal part of the nervous system.
Continue up through a groove to an overhung ledge.
It is overhung on the east and north by frightful crags, from which it is fed by a number of small rills.
The increase of the visceral dome, its spiral twisting, and the gradual closure of the space overhung by the mantle-skirt so as to v / FIG.
Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain.
Drooping in spirit and closing their eyes before the menacing cloud of death that overhung them, they dared not look life in the face.
A small stream overhung with copse and underwood, runs through, forming a most romantic and sylvan walk.
Lycabettus, the most prominent feature in the Athenian landscape, directly overhung the ancient city, but was not included in its walls; its peculiar shape rendered it unsuitable for fortification.
In old males the eyes are overhung by a beetling penthouse of bone, the hinder half of the middle line of the skull bears a wall-like bony ridge for the attachment of the powerful jaw-muscles, and the tusks, or canines, are of monstrous size, recalling those of a carnivorous animal.
The castle, which overhung the Marne, was sold in 1791 to be demolished.
Near the town was the famous fountain of Sauros, inclosed by fruit-bearing poplars; and not far from this was another spring, overhung by an evergreen plane tree which in popular belief marked the scene of the amours of Zeus and Europa.
It stands in a valley overhung by a fortress I 000 ft.
The mouth is overhung by a large labrum or upper lip, and the integument of the dorsal surface of the body forms a more or less definite dorsal shield.