overlay

overlay is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. Milton.

[2] To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. This woman`s child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 1 Kings iii. 19. A heap of ashes that o`erlays your fire. Dryden.

[3] To put an overlay on.