Meanings of overlie in English

Were we really crossing the layers of rock which overlie the granite foundation?

Or does it flatly overlie this earth, not revolving with and over this earth-

Trade and Tryon streets now overlie the old trading path and its intersecting trail.

There are so many goddamn patterns that interlock and overlie each other and contain others.

Nothing could overlie such a fellow; a kind of base success was written on his brow.

These scales slightly overlie each other, and can be raised on end at the will of the animal.

The freshwater marl, containing numerous skeletons of the great deer, or Megaceros, overlie in the Isle of Man that marine glacial drift.

Some of the knife marks overlie saw marks and some are underneath, so the cutting probably came before and after the sawing.

The lower platform owes its width entirely to the rapid weathering and recession of the soft shales, which overlie the Tonto sandstones.

Simple vows sometimes precede the more solemn vows; with the Jesuits, several novitiates, each lasting two or three years, overlie and succeed each other.

Although we've been focusing on the turbidite deposits in Patagonia, we also have a project investigating the shallow-marine and deltaic deposits that overlie them.

Were we really crossing the layers of rock which overlie the granite foundation?

Or does it flatly overlie this earth, not revolving with and over this earth-

Trade and Tryon streets now overlie the old trading path and its intersecting trail.

There are so many goddamn patterns that interlock and overlie each other and contain others.

Nothing could overlie such a fellow; a kind of base success was written on his brow.