overlay

Our concern should be, merely to regulate it, that it grow not too large, and so overlay and crush the state.

This is shown in the beaten bronzes, thin plates of which were used to overlay wooden forms.

There is a disagreeable saline flavour that we cannot remove nor overlay.

And Allard's gray eyes returned assent with an utter calm which overlay the surface of tragedy.

There was a deceptive balminess in the air that seemed merely to overlay a penetrating chilliness.

Not exactly, sir; but I allude to those drearier swamps of superstition and ignorance that overlay the land.

Ashe flushed under the heavy brown which overlay his regular features.

How we should tremble to overlay the record of it with our words!

To whitewash is to overlay, to mask the original fabric under a superadded surface.

Those two years had served well to overlay upon the rugged handiwork of the wild the softness and subtleties of culture.