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Definition of Overbright
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbright
Literary usage of Overbright
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sun by Charles Greeley Abbot (1911)
"The correct explanation undoubtedly is that this faint, dark shading (dark in
the negative [overbright in the spectrum]) is the remains of an emission line, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"But if the aberration is overcorrected the central rings will be overbright inside
the focus and abnormally faint outside the focus. Fto. 7. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"So bitter, as to see the form, Once overbright with beauty's glow, That swam as
in the depths of blies, Subdued to darkness, and the dye Uow'd down beneath ..."
4. Poems by Brian Hooker (1915)
"Even so all delicate wonders, overbright Upon the face of Love for mortal sight,
Were shadow-graven on the face of Pain. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1898)
""And now"—the erect body sank like a sword driven home into the scabbard; the
light faded from the overbright eyes; the voice returned to its usual pitiful ..."
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