Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Superficies; surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A superficies.
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- noun obsolete A
superficies .
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Examples
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Arllechwedd: A rural ward right in the east of the county and in terms of superfice it is Arfon's largest ward.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Arllechwedd: A rural ward right in the east of the county and in terms of superfice it is Arfon's largest ward.
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From behind, the riot of colors and the ramshackle signs and subculture of Kensington was revealed as a superfice, a skin stretched over slightly daggy brick two-stories with tiny yards and tumbledown garages.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
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They were like the geometrical definition of a superfice -- all length and breadth, and no thickness.
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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They were like the geometrical definition of a superfice -- all length and breadth, and no thickness.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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Its valley is between one and two miles in width, with a superfice of variable fertility, but generally consisting of good arable land.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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This superfice is fertilized, not only from the debris of its rocks, but by the immense beds of gypsum contained in its hill-sides, which are incessantly decomposing to enhance the general fecundity.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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The prairies are possessed of either a light sandy superfice, or a mixture of gravel and stiff clay.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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The superfice of the valleys ranges from one to three feet in depth, and generally consists of sedimentary deposites and the debris of rocks, borne from the neighboring hills by aqueous attrition, which, mingled with a dark-colored loam compounded of clay and sand, and various organic and vegetable remains, unite to form a soil of admirable fecundity, rarely equal led by that of any other country.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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This earthliness and carnality of our hearts makes them like the earth, receive only the light in the upper and outward superfice, and not suffer it to be transmitted into our hearts to change them.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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