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Underhung   Listen
adjective
Underhung  adj.  
1.
(Carp.) Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; said of a sliding door.
2.
Having the lower jaw projecting.


Underhung, Underslung  adj.  Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.





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"Underhung" Quotes from Famous Books



... spelled social ostracism. To "Hooverize" became a national habit, and children were denied a spoonful of sugar on their cereal, "because Mr. Hoover would not like it." Hoover, with his broad forehead, round face, compelling eyes, and underhung jaw, became the benevolent bogey of the nation. It was a movement of general renunciation such as no country had undergone except at the pinch of biting necessity.[7] In the meantime prices were prevented from rapid ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour
... be jealous of Juliet Fenn, a girl as middling as mid-day market in everything but her archery and plainness, in which last she was noticeable like her father: underhung and with receding brow resembling that of the more intelligent fishes. (Surely, considering the importance which is given to such an accident in female offspring, marriageable men, or what the new English calls ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... Diana, timidly. She was examining the face beside her, with its bright crude color, its bold eyes, and sulky mouth, slightly underhung. ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... said Lorne thoughtfully. "However—" And he dropped, staring before him, into silence. The others eyed him from serious, underhung faces. Horace Williams, with an obvious effort, got up and clapped him on ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan


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