Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.

Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.

Sunrise.

Toward the sun.

In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

To treat with supper.

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush.

A super.

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

Capable of being overcome or conquered; surmountable.

To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal.

Acidulated to excess.

To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.

The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.

Coming upon; coming in addition to, or in assistance of, something.

The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.

A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.

Superior to the angels in nature or rank.

To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants.

The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

To make (a person) haughty.

A bicarbonate.

Bicarbureted.

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven.

A bearing charged upon another bearing.

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws.

Deceit; fraud; imposition.

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior.

The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

Superfetation.

Remote consequence.

That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite.

Growing on some other growing thing.

Same as Supracretaceous.

Excessively curious or inquisitive.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

See Dreadnought, above.

The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman.

Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.

Supererogatory.

To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another) by means of a surplus action or quality.

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

Supererogatory.

Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services.

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing.

More than ethical; above ethics.

To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others.

Elevation above the common degree.

Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent.

Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.

Something growing superfluously.

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.

The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.

To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.

A superficies.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.

The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial.

To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; superficial.

The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.

Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth.

The state of being superfine.

Extremely finical.

Superfluity.

Floating above or on the surface.

A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.

More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.

Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.

Superfetation.

Excess of foliation.

A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.

To pour (something) over or on something else.

The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.

An apparatus for superheating steam.

A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.

Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.

To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.

The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.

The quality or state of being superincumbent.

Lying or resting on something else.

To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.

Superinduction.

The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.

To infuse over.

An injection succeeding another.

To over see; to superintend by inspection.

One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.

Being above intellect.

To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort.

The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision.

The act of superintending; superintendence.

One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

A superintendent.

An outer vestment or garment.

One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.

A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

In a superior position or manner.

Situated immediately above; as, superjacent rocks.

Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety.

That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.

Excessive or extraordinary gain.

Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary.

same as Overman, above.

Being above, or superior to, matter.

The supermaxilla.

Supermaxillary.

Above the middle.

Being above the world; -- opposed to inframundane.