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A way out; exit. [R.] In divers streets and outways multiplied. P. Fletcher.

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 th…

One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

A superficial covering; a coating.

To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

To say over; to repeat. Ford.

To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time. Bp. Hall.

To bear sway over.

A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

See Popinjay, 1 (b).

A popinjay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly.

Of or pertaining to Paraguay. -- n.

By my faith; verily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.

A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.