What is "overlie"

Usage examples of "overlie".

There was not a cloud in the sky, but the great heat had caused a haze to overlie the valley, gathering thickly along the winding course of the river, and hanging in little sprays and feathers over the woodlands which clothe its banks.

They overlie and blot out all the little sounds of every-day life and usage.

See how the prints overlie the ones made by Aunt Kadi and her companions?

I should say, in order to keep down the fat lest it overlie and smother the soul.

All over the palace area, as the excavations went farther and farther down, the neolithic deposit was found to overlie the virgin soil, sometimes to a depth of 24 feet, showing that the site had been thickly populated in remote prehistoric times.

September morning, a palpable atmosphere of gloom seemed to overlie it.

Each formation thus appears as a terrace, bounded on one side by a descending cliff carved out of the edges of its own strata and on the other by an ascending cliff carved out of the strata which overlie it.

We lay awake at night, worrying lest the ewes should overlie their lambs, and we got up again and again to see that all was well.

The light-colored mounds often met in the forest, sometimes measuring forty feet in diameter by two feet in height, are the domes which overlie the entrances to the vast subterranean galleries of the saueba ants.

Astronomy is even less remunerative than Architecture, it was well for Harries that an uncle of his had once bought a desert in a far country, which turned out to overlie oil.

If one had done a murder this sod would overlie a grave and Alkire would be in it in his bloody shirt.

I will make you look at a real landscape with your right eye, and a stereoscopic view of it with your left eye, both at once, and you can slide one over the other by a little management and see how exactly the picture overlies the true landscape.

Into this region the cooler air from the north and south necessarily flows, in part pressed in by the weight of the cold air which overlies it, but aided in its motion by the fact that the particles which ascend leave place for others to occupy.

It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt.

Inspector Dunbar perceived that the shadow of the neighboring hostelry overlay this home.