superlie
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superlie (third-person singular simple present superlies, present participle superlying, simple past superlay, past participle superlain)
- (transitive, dated) To lie above.
- 1858, The civil engineer and architect's journal, Volume 21:
- […] the soil of the river into which they have been sent, and which they enclose, is dredged or rather scooped out until the hard gravel which superlies the clay is reached […]