Hypertext Webster Gateway: "layer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See {Lay} to cause to lie flat.]
1. One who, or that which, lays.
2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] That which is laid; a
stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over
another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a
layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock,
laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. An artificial oyster bed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
layer
n 1: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
2: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or
under another
3: a hen that lays eggs
4: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
v : make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
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