an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning.
Full overlay hinges are for individual cabinets or the cabinets on either end of a run of cabinets. (Source). Half overlay hinges are intended for pairs of doors in the middle of a run of cabinets, where two doors have their hinges mounted on opposite sides of a shared middle partition. (Source).
For example, a single door with a 1/2 overlay is 1 wider and 1 taller than the opening. Common overlays are 1/2 (exposing 1 of the frame on all sides) and 1-1/4 (exposing 1/4 of the frame on all sides), but many others are valid.