What is "overlies"

Usage examples of "overlies".

The chief seat of the movement is evidently in the thick mass of cells which overlies the central bundle of vessels in the midrib.

I saw the country that could only be Egypt, the burnt yellow look to all things, the sand that overlies everything and soils it and dusts it to the same color, and I saw more stairways into the earth and I saw sanctuaries .

Its essential principle consists in ascertaining from the examination of many corpses the normal thickness of flesh that overlies a certain bone in a certain type of face.

Meriwhen's hoofs squish through the thin mud that overlies the stones of the road.

Another marine deposit, containing walrus, seals and at least five genera of whales, overlies the seaboard of the north-eastern states and the Arctic coast of Canada.