Superficies

sū-pėr-fish′yēz, n. the upper face or surface: the outer face or part of a thing.— adj. Superfi′cial , pertaining to, or being on, the surface: shallow: slight: containing only what is apparent and simple: not learned.— v.t. Superfi′cialise , to treat superficially.— n. Superfi′cialist , a person of merely superficial knowledge.— adv. Superfi′cially .— ns. Superfi′cialne , Superficial′ity ; Superfi′ciary , one po e ing a right to what stands on the surface of the lands of another.— adj. belonging to the surface: situated on another's land. [L. super , above, facies , face.]