What is the name meaning of OVERLY. Phrases containing OVERLY
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English : habitational name from a place named Overley or Overleigh, as for example Overleigh in Cheshire, named with Old English uferra‘higher’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’, ‘glade’.Americanized spelling of German Oberle, or of Oberley, Overley, topographic names from ober ‘up above’ + Middle Low German leie ‘rock’, ‘stone’, ‘shale’.
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English : variant of Overly.
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n.
The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
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In an overly manner.
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The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
v. t.
An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
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Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.
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A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
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The quality or state of being overly; carelessness.
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Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.
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A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
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Excessive; too much.
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Lying over or upon something; as, overlying rocks.
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A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
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