O`ver*lie" (?), v. t.
[imp. Overlay (?); p. p.
Overlain (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Overlying.] To lie over or upon; specifically, to
suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
Quain.
A woman by negligence overlieth her child in
her sleeping.
Chaucer.