Word Meanings - OVERLIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• LYRE BIRD
  Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales,
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• LYCOPODE
  See LYCOPODIUM
• LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
  See LITHONTRIPTIC
• LYONNAISE
  Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
• LYMPH
  An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• INFANTLY
  Like an infant. Beau. & Fl.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• LYSSA
  Hydrophobia. Note: The plural has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.
• NEGLIGENCE
  The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and
• LYNCH LAW
  . The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law. Note: The term Lynch law is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But the origin
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• LYCINE
  A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn . See Betaine.
• LYING
  of Lie, to be supported horizontally. Lying panel , a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. -- Lying to , having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• LYAM
  A leash.
• LYRIFEROUS
  Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• SCOLYTID
  Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• POLYCHROITE
  The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.
• WHIP-TOM-KELLY
  A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• THERMALLY
  In a thermal manner.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• POLYPODIUM
  A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.