English English Dictionary

Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.

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.

Higher than celestial; superangelic.

To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

A bearing charged upon another bearing.

of Supercharge

of Supercharge

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws.

Deceit; fraud; imposition.

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.

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.