Lexicographical Neighbors of Overkept
Literary usage of Overkept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Hanging Ditch: Its Trades, Its Traders and Its Renaissance by Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson (1910)
"On another occasion there were many dealers who had much overkept Irish butter
on their hands who were delighted to receive the card of a German gentleman ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Shrivelled and become tough, as winter fruit overkept, but not turned rotten;
also grain shrivelled with heat or disease. Puppy. A puppet. *Puppy-dogs. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"And well for them, for the love where God is not, be the lady lovely as Cordelia,
the man gentle as Philip Sidney, will fare as the overkept manna. ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"The stock bacterin may be old, ie, it may be overkept, as a result of which
autolysis has taken place, and in certain infections this bacterin would be of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"If the game-dealers were licensed, they would not resort to this svstem ; and
sooner than sell their inferior and overkept game by retail at a low rate, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart (1901)
"... their uneasiness at the approach of an overkept haunch of venison; and neither
by the nose nor the palate could he distinguish corked wine from sound. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... like a trip overkept, or the leather nsed by the old woman. Forty. TRISE.
To pull up. TRISTE. (1) Hut thou be prowde and eke of port For fry ><> of lady ..."
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