† overˈhill, v. Obs.
[f. over- 8 + hill v.1]
trans. To cover over, cover up; = overhele v.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xliii. 16 Schenschipe of mi face over⁓hild me ai. c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 460 Overhille the flesshe with the syrippe. 1553 Bale Gardiner's De vera Obed. G vj b, He..thinketh he lyeth closely in couert, as though his sides were overhilled. 1608 B. Jonson Masque Beauty, Thy haire, thy beard..ore-hil'd with snow. |