4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overlay \O"ver*lay`\, n.
1. A covering. --Sir W. Scott.
2. (Printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet
to improve the impression by making it stronger at a
particular place
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
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
overlay
n : a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a
building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a
weatherproof exterior [syn: {sheathing}, {overlayer}]
v 1: put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with
a lot of gravy" [syn: {cover}]
2: kill by lying on "The sow overlay her piglets" [syn: {overlie}]
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