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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Overlay \O"ver*lay`\, n. 1. A covering. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. (Printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place. [1913 Webster] 3. (Computers) A subroutine which occupies a portion of main memory which is occupied at some other time by another subroutine during execution of the same program. Overlays were used as an older technique to allow larger programs to be executed in restricted main memory space; the same effect is now accomplished by different techniques. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster] And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: To cover (an object made of an inexpensive metal, glass, or other material) with a thin sheet of an expensive metal, especially with silver or gold. Distinguished from to {plate}, which is done by a chemical or electrical deposition process. [PJC] 3. To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. [1913 Webster] This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. --1 Kings iii. 19. [1913 Webster] A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. (Printing) To put an overlay on. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Overlie \O`ver*lie"\, v. t. [imp. {Overlay}; p. p. {Overlain}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overlying}.] To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. --Quain. [1913 Webster] A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: overlay n 1: protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior [syn: {sheathing}, {overlay}, {overlayer}] 2: a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface v 1: put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with a lot of gravy" [syn: {overlay}, {cover}] 2: kill by lying on; "The sow overlay her piglets" [syn: {overlie}, {overlay}] From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Overlay /oːvrlai/ overlay