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A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

tely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise. -- Whip grafting, tongue grafting, the same as splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both…

or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.

To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

ales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.

of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

A lapping with the tongue.

With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

rm or outline; to blend. The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp.

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.

Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.

The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

ogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." Shak. Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. -- Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.…

ht variations of the sun's diameter by photography, utilizing the common chord of two overlapping images.