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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…

A superficial covering; a coating.

Covered or concealed by a different odor. Fuller.

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.

om Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.

To cover with viscid matter. [R.] O'ersized with coagulate gore. Shak.

To cover with snow, or as with snow. [Poetic] Shak. Dryden.

To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. Drayton.

Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason. Macaulay. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. Constitution of the U. S.

To veil or cover. Shak.

To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhe…

d 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.

To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

d esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.

A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.