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overlying


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  A  woman  by  negligence  overlieth  her  child  in  her 
  sleeping.  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overlying  \O`ver*ly"ing\,  a. 
  Lying  over  or  upon  something  as  overlying  rocks. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  overlying 
  adj  :  placed  on  or  over  something  else;  "an  overlying  image"  [syn: 
  {superimposed}] 




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