overslip

[ oh-ver-slip ]

verb (used with object)

, Obsolete.

, o·ver·slipped or o·ver·slipt, o·ver·slip·ping.

1. to leave out; miss.
2. to elude; evade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overslip¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; over-, slip ¹

Example Sentences

Dorsett is too keen to overslip the law in any way.

From Project Gutenberg

Overslip, ō-vėr-slip′, v.t. to pass without notice.

From Project Gutenberg

Bethink you of such dealings, and set your labor upon such mends as best may, though not right, yet salve some piece of this overslip; and be assured that you deal with such a king as will bear no wrongs and endure infamy; the examples have been so lately seen as they can hardly be forgotten of a far mightier and potenter prince than any Europe hath.

From Project Gutenberg

Within a myrtle shade she sate and sung;100 And tufts of waving reeds above her sprung, Where lurked two foxes, that, while she applied Her trifling snares, their thieveries did divide, One to the vine, another to her scrip, That she did negligently overslip; By which her fruitful vine and wholesome fare She suffered spoiled to make a childish snare.

From Project Gutenberg

Overrun, overshoot, overslip, are terms in hunting, overtop never; except perchance in the vocabulary of the wild huntsman of the Alps.

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