A bearing charged upon another bearing.
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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.
Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.
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.
Supermundane.
Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine.
A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers.
Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.
The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.
The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.
Of or pertaining to supernaturalism.
The quality or state of being supernatural.
To treat or regard as supernatural.
In a supernatural manner.
The quality or state of being supernatural.
A person or thing beyond the number stated.
Supraoccipital.
A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
See Peroxide.
Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.
Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10.
An acid phosphate.
Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.
To please exceedingly.
Surplus.
Surplusage.
More than politic; above or exceeding policy.
To wiegh over and above.
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