Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overlying"

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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Overlying \O`ver*ly"ing\, a.
Lying over or upon something; as, overlying rocks.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

overlying
adj : placed on or over something else; "an overlying image" [syn:
{superimposed}]


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