Veneer

ve-nēr′, v.t. to overlay or face with another and superior wood: to cover with a thin coating of any substance other than wood: to disguise with artificial attractivene .— n. a thin coating, as of wood: false show or charm.— ns. Veneer′-cut′ter , a machine for cutting veneers from the block of wood; Veneer′ing , the act or art of overlaying an inferior wood with thin leaves of a more valuable kind: the thin leaf thus laid on. [Formerly fineer ; corr. from Ger. furniren —O. Fr. fornir (Fr. fournir ), It. fornire , to furnish.]