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A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

hey are the last two pairs. -- Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat. -- Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.

chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. Bacon. Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. J. D. Dana.

ubtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.

To lay down beforehand. These grounds being forelaid and understood. Mede.

A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a governme…

The strips thus laid on.

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys.

abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals. Gwilt.…

ess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

ch form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. Gauge of a carriage, car, etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track. -- Gauge cock, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the wate…

Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.

The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

To grind or strike the teeth together. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.