Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overlie"
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)
overlie
v 1: lie upon; lie on top of; "the granite overlies the older
rocks"
2: kill by lying on; "The sow overlay her piglets" [syn: {overlay}]
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