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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overlie  \O`ver*lie"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  {Overlay};  p.  p.  {Overlain}; 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Overlying}.] 
  To  lie  over  or  upon  specifically,  to  suffocate  by  lying 
  upon  as  to  overlie  an  infant.  --Quain. 
 
  A  woman  by  negligence  overlieth  her  child  in  her 
  sleeping.  --Chaucer. 




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