The state of being superfine.
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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.
Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.
To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
To praise to excess.
Overplus or excess of proportion.
Excessive purgation.
The reflection of a reflected image or sound.
More than regal; worthy of one greater than a king.
To reward to an excessive degree.
Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.
The act of leaping on anything.
Leaping upon.
An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n.
To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.
To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.
Superscription.
The act of superscribing.
Being above the world, or secular things.
To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury.
To sow, as seed, over something previously sown.
The sowing of seed over seed previously sown.
Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.
Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
Supersensible.
Supersensible.
Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure.
Above the sun.
Moving at a speed greater than the speed of sound in air; -- this speed varies with altitude, since the speed of sound varies with altitude, as well as with temperature and humidity, being approximately 1129 feet per second at sea level and 984 feet per second at 16 miles altitude.
Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Supraspinuos.
An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
One addicted to superstition.
Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
To overstrain.
A stratum, or layer, above another.
To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.
The act of superstructing, or building upon.
Built or erected on something else.
One who builds a superstructure.
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