overlinger

English

Etymology

over- +‎ linger

Verb

overlinger (third-person singular simple present overlingers, present participle overlingering, simple past and past participle overlingered)

1. (intransitive) To linger or remain for too long.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to linger; to detain too long.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     Yet he loves not to over-linger any in an afflicting hope, but speedily dispatcheth the fears or desires of his expecting clients

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overlinger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• roving reel