Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
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The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure.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.
Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
More than substantial; spiritual.
Too subtle.
An acid sulphate.
Supersulphurized.
To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.
A tax in addition to the usual or normal tax; specif., in the United Kingdom, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds /3,000 when his total income exceeds /5,000.
That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
Being above ground.
Being above ground, or above the earth.
Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.
The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.
Tragical to excess.
The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless.
To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.
The act of supervening.
Supervision.
Supervision; inspection.
The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
Supervisory.
One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
To survive; to outlive.
Having a plaited and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.
The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward. The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to pronation.
A muscle which produces the motion of supination.
A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
Supineness.
What may be supped; pottage.
The act of enticing by soft words; enticement.
The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.
See Supawn.
Being under the feet.
To supply; to furnish.
Supply; aid afforded.
To supply with supper.
Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed.
The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
To replace.
To trip up.
The act of supplanting or displacing.
One who supplants.
To become soft and pliant.
Having a limber tongue.
A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.
In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
The act of supplementing.
The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
That which is to supply what is wanted.
Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
The act of supplying; a supply.
Supplication; entreaty.
One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Supplication.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
In a supplicating manner.
The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
One who supplicates; a supplicant.
Containing supplication; humble; earnest.
One who supplies.
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
A supplying or furnishing; supply.
The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.
Support.
Maintenance; support.
One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
Abounding with support.
Having no support.
Support.
A female supporter.
Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case.
The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.
Supposition.
One who supposes.
The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.
A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.
An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.
To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
That may be suppressed.
The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
One who suppresses.
To surprise.
A suppurative.
To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
The act or process of suppurating.
A suppurative medicine.
To suppute.
Reckoning; account.
To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.
Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Situated above the acromial process of the scapula.
See Surangular.
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