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overlade

[ oh-ver-leyd ]

verb (used with object)

overladed, overladen or overladed, overlading.
  1. to overload (usually used in past participle overladen ):

    a table overladen with rich food.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overlade1

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; over-, lade
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Overlade, ō-vėr-lād′, v.t. to load with too great a burden.

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Overhang, ō-vėr-hang′, v.t. to hang over: to project over: to impend: to overlade with ornamentation.—v.i. to hang over.—n.

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"Men," he says, "may overlade a ship or barge, and therefore I will skip at once to the effect, and let all the rest slip."

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Dawneth the day unto his kind resort, And Phoebus your father, with his streames red, Adorns the morrow, consuming the sort* *crowd Of misty cloudes, that would overlade True humble heartes with their mistihead.* *dimness, mistiness New comfort adaws,* when your eyen clear *dawns, awakens Disclose and spread, my life's lady dear.

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