Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overlay"

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) 1.7 (wn)

overlay
n : protective covering consisting, for example, of 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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