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Definition of Overlies
1. overlie [v] - See also: overlie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlies
Literary usage of Overlies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"... overlies the wing, but, for the sake of clearness, has been omitted from the
drawing, and the nervures of the wing are continued by dotted lines over ..."
2. Man and the Glacial Period by George Frederick Wright, Henry Williamson Haynes (1892)
"Ideal section, showing how the till overlies the stratified rocks. 3. Transported
boulders. Where there is a current of water deep enough to ..."
3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"He has observed that, allowing for irregularities of form, the mass of gabbro
obliquely overlies the basalts as a great sheet, not necessarily due to a ..."
4. Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines and Mining: Comprising Suggestions as to by Henry Stafford Osborn (1887)
"... and other tools and fixtures as enumerated in the usual catalogues of such
machinery. To start a well where the soil overlies the rock, ..."
5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS left mid-Poupart lines, overlies the small intestines, the
mesentery, the great omentum, the kidneys, and the transverse colon. ..."
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