Definition of Overlaid

1. Verb. (past of overlay) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overlaid

1. overlay [v] - See also: overlay

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlaid

overknee
overknowing
overlabor
overlabored
overlaboring
overlabors
overlabour
overlaboured
overlabouring
overlabours
overlade
overladed
overladen
overlades
overlading
overlaid (current term)
overlain
overlaminate
overlaminates
overland
overlander
overlanders
overlands
overlanguaged
overlap
overlap hybridization
overlap index
overlapped
overlapping
overlapping gene

Literary usage of Overlaid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"And he overlaid the boards 6.and overlay them with brass. 30: 3. And thou shalt over/at/ it with pure gold, 3$.and he overlaid their chapiters 38:'2H. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"They are composed of a series of deposits for the most part of fresh water origin, but overlaid and underlaid by brackish water beds. ..."

3. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"One group contains the belts consisting of a narrow plaited band, decorated and sometimes entirely covered with patterns of overlaid wefts and ornaments of ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"In Borneo, coal is associated at L'ulo Chir- min, which is about 200 feet hkh, with a ferruginous sandstone, and overlaid by a mass of red sand and clay. ..."

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