† overˈdrop, v. Obs.
[over- 1.]
trans. To drop over or upon; to overhang, overshadow.
| 1608 Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 135 Their toppes aloft, and braunches broad, and thereby ouerdroppe all that is under them. 1677 in Cleveland's Gen. Poems Ep. Ded. A iv, How enviously our late Mushrom-wits look up at him because he overdroppeth them. |