overlade (overlad)

t. [ Ouerlade not your verse with too many of them [dactyls]; but here and there enter lace a Iambus or some other foote of two times to giue him grauitie. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 103. Their hearts were alway heavy, and overladen with earthly thoughts. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 37. The house was overladen with guests. Coryat , Crudities, I. 132. overlaid (ō-vér-lād'), a. 1. In her . , lapping lapp over; doubled for a part of its length.length.-2. In entom ., seeming as if covered with a semi-transparent pigment through which the markings are dimly visible: as, basal portion of the wing overlaid with ochraceous. overland (ō'ver-land'), adv. Over or acro the country. I desire of you A conduct over - land to Milford-Haven. Shak ., Cymbeline, iii. 5. 8. overland (ō'ver-land), a. Pa ing by land; made or performed upon or acro the land: as, an overland journey.-- Overland route, a route which is wholly or largely over land. Especially- (a) The route from Great Britain to India by way of the Isthmus of Suez, as opposed to that around the Cape of Good Hope. (6) The route the country east of the Mi i ippi to the Pacific coast acro the plains and the Rocky Mountains, as opposed to that around Cape Horn, or by way of the Isthmus of Darien. overlap (ō-vér-lap'), v. t. 1. To lap or fold over; extend so as to lie or rest upon: as, one slate on a roof overlaps another. Those circles, of which there are now so many-artistic, æsthetic, literary - all of them considering themselves to belong to society, were then [1837] out of society altogether; nor did they overlap and intersect each other. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 85. 2. To cause to lap or fold over: as, to overlap slates or shingles on a roof.