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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
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OVERLA'Y,
1. To lay too much upon to oppress with incumbent weight as a country overlaid with inhabitants.
Our sins have overlaid our hopes.
2. To cover to spread over the surface as, to overlay capitals of columns with silver cedar overlaid with gold.
3. To smother with close covering as, to overlay an infant.
4. To overwhelm to smother.
A heap of ashes that o'er lays your fire.
5. To cloud to overcast.
- As when a cloud his beam doth overlay.
6. To cover to join two opposite sides by a cover.
And overlay with this portentous bridge the dark abyss.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Overlay'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/o/overlay.html.
Entry for 'Overlay'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/o/overlay.html.
