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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overlay  \O`ver*lay"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Overlaid};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Overlaying}.] 
  1.  To  lay,  or  spread,  something  over  or  across  hence  to 
  cover;  to  overwhelm;  to  press  excessively  upon 
 
  When  any  country  is  overlaid  by  the  multitude  which 
  live  upon  it  --Sir  W. 
  Raleigh. 
 
  As  when  a  cloud  his  beams  doth  overlay.  --Spenser. 
 
  Framed  of  cedar  overlaid  with  gold.  --Milton. 
 
  And  overlay  With  this  portentous  bridge  the  dark 
  abyss.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  smother  with  a  close  covering,  or  by  lying  upon 
 
  This  woman's  child  died  in  the  night;  because  she 
  overlaid  it  --1  Kings  iii. 
  19. 
 
  A  heap  of  ashes  that  o'erlays  your  fire.  --Dryden. 
 
  3.  (Printing)  To  put  an  overlay  on 




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