superincumbent

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But Sir Gilbert Scott thought that if a bit of the superincumbent stone was raised, some portion of the more ancient monument might exist beneath.

From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina

This was effected by cutting away the superincumbent stones at an angle of about 45� with the horizon.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.

The levee of her commercial emporium literally trembles, in a frontage of nine miles, beneath the superincumbent masses of merchandise.

From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by Landrum, John M.

Elsewhere he accounts for the diminished pressure on the top of a mountain by the diminished weight of the superincumbent column of air.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

Hydrobarometer, hī-dro-ba-rom′e-ter, n. an instrument for determining the depth of the sea by the pressure of the superincumbent water.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various