overgang
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Is overgang a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed.Examples: "Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit"; "But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang."; ""The trouble is overganging the profit. Read us one o' King David's psalms or canticles, then we'll go to our sleep wi' a song in our hearts.""dialectalobsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (dialectal or obsolete) Something that goes across or over; a transition.Examples: "… all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly."; "Sometimes we can put our finger direct on the overgang."; "[...] the preservation of adequate or established footpaths, the creation of new stiles or overgangs, in aid of the same object, in the fences required in the process of inclosure, and so forth."dialectalobsolete
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