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Webster 1913 Edition

Overlie

Oˊver-lie′

,

Verb.

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.