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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Overlaying \O"ver*lay"ing\, n.
A superficial covering; a coating.