To cover, spread, or coat (with something), esp. by way of ornament (as in embroidery).

transitive. To spread across (a place, area, region, etc.); esp. to overrun, to occupy in large numbers. Obsolete.

To put a covering of some specified kind on. To put a surface layer of something on for ornament or use; to overlay, overspread with.

To spread a sheet or layer of some substance upon (a surface); to cover with a sheet (e.g. of snow or ice). (Also with down, up.)

transitive. To glaze over; to cover with ice.

transitive. To coat or encrust (something), esp. with a substance. Frequently in passive. rare after 18th cent.

transitive. Usually in passive. To cover the surface or face of (a structure, object, building) either wholly or partially with some specified…

transitive. To overlay, overspread, cover, coat. Now rare.

To cover with a surface layer or coating (or with successive layers) of any substance, as paint, tar, tinfoil, etc.; also predicated of the…

transitive. = candy, v. (in various senses).

To spread, strew, or cover with a bed or layer of anything. Cf. carpet, v.

transitive. To deposit and fix (a coating). Also of a paving material. Hence, to cover (a surface) with something.

transitive. To provide with a coating or outer layer, esp. a protective one; to apply a topcoat to (a surface). Cf. overcoat, n. 2.