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Definition of Overhot
1. too hot [adj] - See also: hot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhot
Literary usage of Overhot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"... of a cold stomach and overhot liver, almost in every consultation, con.
89, for a certain count, and con. 106, for a Polonian baron : by reason of heat, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... going up the chimney of a cooking range and to radiation to an already overhot
kitchen, but also on account of its entire cleanliness and reliability. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"In fermentation, as in love, all overhot settings on, are sure to be suddenly
brought to an end. They are too high above the average range of this world's ..."
4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"Some say they fancy, but they know not why, A shade of trouble brooding in his
eye, Nothing, perhaps, — the rooms are overhot, — Yet see his cheek, ..."
5. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829)
"... any great strength of Scythian horsemen in his army, it was the more wisely
done of him to fall back out of the rough, mountainous, and overhot country, ..."
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