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.