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Supplement

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.

Supplementary Supplemental

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.

Suppleness

The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.

Suppliant

One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

Supplicat

A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.

Supplicate

To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.

Supplication

The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.

Supply

Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

Supplyant

Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.

Support

The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.

Supportable

Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.

Supporter

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

Supposable

Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case.

Supposal

The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

Supposition

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.

Suppositional

Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.

Supposititious

Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.

Suppositive

A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.

Suppositor

An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.

Suppository

A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

Supposure

Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.

Suppress

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

Suppression

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.

Suppurate

To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.

Suppute

To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.

Supra

Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.

Supra-auricular

Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds. A supra-auricular feather.

Supra-axillary

Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

Supra-ethmoid

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

Supra-ilium

The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.

Suprabranchial

Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Suprachoroidal Suprachoroid

Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.

Supraclavicle

A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.

Supraclavicular

Situated above the clavicle. Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.

Supracostal

Situated above, or on the outside of, the ribs.

Suprafoliaceous

Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

Supraglotic

Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.

Suprahepatic

Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.

Supralapsarian

Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.

Supraloral

Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird. A supraloral feather.

Supramaxillary

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

Supramundane

Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.

Supranaturalism

The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.

Supraoccipital

Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. The supraoccipital bone.

Supraocular

Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.

Suprapedal

Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.

Supraprotest

An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee.

Suprarenal

Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys. A suprarenal capsule.

Suprasphenoidal

Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.

Supraspinal

Situated above the vertebral column. Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.

Supraspinous Supraspinate

Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.

Suprastapedial

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that part of the columella of the ear which projects above the connection with the stapes, as in many animals. The suprastapedial part of the columella.

Supratemporal

Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. A supratemporal bone.

Supratrochlear

Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

Supravaginal

Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.

Supremacy

The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.

Supreme

Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.

Sura

One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.

Suradanni

A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.

Surah

A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.

Sural

Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.

Surangular

Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. The surangular bone.

Surbase

A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.

Surbased

Having a surbase, or molding above the base. Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased.

Surbate

To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.

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