pos>a. 1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. “The Everlasting God.” Gen. xx1. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.

Syn. -- Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. -- Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. --
Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. xc. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an everlasting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overlabored p. pr. & vb. n. Overlaboring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overladed; p. p. Overladen p. pr. & vb. n. Overlading. ] [ Cf. Overload. ] To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By, upon, or across, land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To lay (one thing) over another; to lap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover part of. [ PJC ]

v. i. 1. To be arranged so that a part of one object laying over part of another; as, the boards overlapped at their ends. [ PJC ]

2. To have the ending time of one period or process extend beyond the beginning time of another period or process; as, the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt overlapped by several decades. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as clinker-built; -- of ships.
Syn. -- lap-jointed, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A covering with an overlapping design, as with tiles or shingles.
Syn. -- imbrication, lapping. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Too large; too great. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excess of size or bulk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Prov. E. lash extravagant, lashing lavish. ] To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excess; exaggeration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too late; exceedingly late. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lave or bathe over. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lavish to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overlaid p. pr. & vb. n. Overlaying. ] 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

And overlay
With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To cover (an object made of an inexpensive metal, glass, or other material) with a thin sheet of an expensive metal, especially with silver or gold. Distinguished from to plate, which is done by a chemical or electrical deposition process. [ PJC ]

3. To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 1 Kings iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Printing) To put an overlay on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A covering. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Computers) A subroutine which occupies a portion of main memory which is occupied at some other time by another subroutine during execution of the same program. Overlays were used as an older technique to allow larger programs to be executed in restricted main memory space; the same effect is now accomplished by different techniques. [ PJC ]

n. One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A superficial covering; a coating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) an American everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly-white scarious involucres.
Syn. -- cottonweed, Anaphalis margaritacea. [ WordNet 1.5 +MW10 ]