overlayˈ transitive verb (pat and pap overlaidˈ)

1. To cover by laying or spreading something over
2. To cover to excess, encumber
3. By confusion, to overlie
4. To put an overlay or overlays on (printing)
5. To lay or place as a covering (rare)
6. To span (Milton)

1. A covering
2. Anything laid on or over to alter the appearance
3. A piece of paper pasted on the impression-surface of a printing press, so as to increase the impression in a place where it is too faint
4. In artwork, a transparent sheet on which is drawn one element of the whole design, which is laid on top of another sheet or sheets to present the complete design
5. The process by which segments of a large program are brought from backing store for processing, with only those segments currently requiring processing being held in the main store (computing)
6. A segment of a program transferred in this way (computing)
7. (often o'erˈlay or owreˈlay) a large cravat (Scot)

overlieˈ transitive verb (overlyˈing; overlayˈ; overlainˈ)

1. To lie above or upon
2. To smother by lying on

oˈverlier (or /-līˈ/) noun

• beyond compare
• beyond dispute
• beyond doubt
• beyond measure
• beyond number
• beyond one
• beyond one's ken
• beyond price
• beyond recall
• beyond reproach
• beyonds
• beyond seas
• beyond suspicion
• beyond the black stump
• beyond the pale
• be your age
• beys
• bez
• bezant
• bez-antler
• bezants
• bezazz
• bezazzes
• bezel
• bezels