Definition of Overtight

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtight

overthrow
overthrowal
overthrowals
overthrower
overthrowers
overthroweth
overthrowing
overthrown
overthrows
overthrust
overthrust fault
overthrusts
overthwart
overthwartly
overthwartness
overtight (current term)
overtighten
overtightened
overtightening
overtightens
overtilde
overtildes
overtime
overtime period
overtimed
overtimes
overtimid
overtiming
overtip
overtipped

Literary usage of Overtight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The markings seen by Mr. Lowell he attributes to a supposed strain on the glass, induced by an overtight condition of the adjusting screws or of the ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"This was speedily followed by a marked fall in the temperature and an improvement in the general symptoms. To an overtight head bandage, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"This was speedily followed by a marked fall in the temperature and an improvement in the general symptoms. To an overtight head bandage, ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Wanted to swap knives with me. Quite surprised to NOTES AT COMMEMORATION. An overtight. — When the Public Orator, the Rev. ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Great distention and pain from an overtight anal sphincter is rarer than any of these but no less real. In older children green apple, or corn, or grape, ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1806)
"... acknowlege that we must have committed some overtight, since bj M. Mendoza'« computation the latitude is j j"1 12' 30," within IS ..."

7. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1903)
"... affectedly seated herself with a male companion at an empty table, and began to pull off an overtight glove. " My! " said Pansy in admiring wonder, ..."

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