Hypertext Webster Gateway: "superficies"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Superficies \Su`per*fi"cies\, n. [L., fr. super above, over +
facies make, figure, shape. See {Surface}.]
1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face
of a thing.
2. (Civil Law)
(a) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of
a building, so closely connected by art or nature as
to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other
superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.
(b) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed
proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong
resemblance to the long building leases granted by
landholders in England, in consideration of a rent,
and under reservation of the ownership of the soil.
--Bouvier. Wharton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
superficies
n 1: the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial
appearance: "the audience was held by the substance of
the play rather than by the superficies of the
production"-R.W.Speaight
2: outer surface of an area or a body
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