† overcheekn.
Obsolete.
1. The upper jaw.
ΚΠ
c1300 St. Margarete (Harl.) 160 in O. Cockayne Seinte Marherete (1866) 29 (MED) He ȝenede & gan his ouere cheoke ouer hire heued do & his nyþere cheoke byneþe at hire ho.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 10v (MED) Þat basillare þat is aboue þe palate þe which som man supposeþ to be of þe ouercheke.
2. The lintel of a door.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door lintel
overslayOE
overslaughta1225
overdornea1325
thresholdc1350
overthresholda1382
dernera1400
overcheekc1400
overway1430
headpiece1611
supercilium1816
paepae1937
c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 74 (MED) Et oultre la teste est le suislyne..And aboue þe heued ys þe ouerchek.
?a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Norwich Corp.) Exod. xii. 7 Either ouercheckis [L. superliminaribus].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.c1300- to cut one'a bit of mutton with
- to cut one's cloth according to one's calling
- to cut one's eye
- to cut one's eye at a person
- to cut one's eyes
- to cut one's eyes at a person
- to cut one's eyeteeth
- to cut one's loss
- to cut one's losses
- to cut one's lucky
- to cut one's milk teeth
- to cut one's mutton with
- to cut one's own grass
- to cut one's own throat
- to cut one's stick
- to cut one's teeth
- to cut one's way
- to cut one's wisdom teeth
- to cut open
- to cut out
- to cut out of all feather
- to cut out of the whole cloth
- to cut out of whole cloth
- to cut out work
- to cut out work for a person