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Overbrow vs Overcrow - What's the difference?

overbrow | overcrow |

As verbs the difference between overbrow and overcrow

is that overbrow is (poetic|transitive) to hang over like a brow; to impend over while overcrow is (obsolete|transitive) to take over.

overbrow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (poetic) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
    • (Longfellow)
    Did with a huge projection overbrow / Large space beneath. — Wordsworth.
    (Webster 1913)

    overcrow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To take over.
  • *1602 : , act V scene 2
  • *:The potent poison quite overcrows my spirit
  • (obsolete) To crow over, as in triumph.