Crossword-Solution: OVERLYING 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Overlying p. pr. & vb. n. of Overlie
Overlying a. Lying over or upon something; as, overlying rocks.

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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with OVERLYING (5)

Its valley is in great part fertile, and is noted for the interesting fossils discovered in it by Professor Condon in sections cut by the river through the overlying lava beds.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
Upon probing through a small fistulous opening just above the superior end of the sternum, the point of the arrow was found resting against the bone, about 1 1/2 inches below, the head lying against the trachea and esophagus, with the carotid artery, jugular vein, and nerves overlying.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1997
Her face, still beautiful, was particularly seductive for its Creole complexion, the vividness of which can be described only by comparing it to muslin overlying crimson, so equally is the whiteness suffused with color.
The Marriage Contract Honore de Balzac 1998
You have cast it in my teeth often enough.” “Cast it in your teeth?” “Yes! Am I never to hear the last of my obligation to you? The devil take the obligation! I’m sick of the sound of it.” There was a spirit in Arnold--not easily brought to the surface, through the overlying simplicity and good-humor of his ordinary character--which, once roused, was a spirit not readily quelled.
Man and Wife Wilkie Collins 2006

Quotes with OVERLYING (3)

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying one another, and looking at them was like listening to the dead speak and sing and cry out for mercy.
Stephen King The Green Mile
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
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