underhung

[uhn-der-huhng]

adjective

Anatomy.
1. (of the lower jaw) projecting beyond the upper jaw.
2. having the lower jaw so projecting.
resting on a track beneath instead of being overhung, as a sliding door.

Origin of underhung

First recorded in 1675–85; under- + hung

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Historical Examples of underhung

His mouth was underhung, giving him a pugnacious and bad-tempered appearance.
The Red Redmaynes
Eden Phillpotts
At any rate, that man's idea of The Torment was a hot, crowded underground room, underhung with patterned cloths.
Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
Rudyard Kipling
He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth.
The Vultures
Henry Seton Merriman
Underhung, un-dėr-hung′, adj. hanging over, protruding from beneath: running on rollers on a rail below it—of a sliding-door—opp.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Various
Silvestro was hand in hand with Petruccio and another boy, called Mastino because he was heavy-jowled and underhung.
Little Novels of Italy
Maurice Henry Hewlett

British Dictionary definitions for underhung

underhung

adjective

(of the lower jaw) projecting beyond the upper jaw; undershot
(of a sliding door, etc) supported at its lower edge by a track or rail

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