beetling
- v be suspended over or hang over
- v fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
- v beat with a beetle
- s jutting or overhanging
- His craggy makeup, with its shaggy beard and beetling brows, made him resemble the tormented Mussorgsky him self.
- Hamilton Fish, Congressman from New York for almost a quarter-century, wriggled his beetling black brows and thundered: "I had hoped to be Chairman Of the Rules Committee.
- Delmonico's, where he gave numerous dinners, recently closed its doors; Madison Square Garden, at whose ringside his plump beetling face often brooded, has been pulled down.