English English Dictionary

Being above the vulgar or common people.

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.

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

Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.

Situated at the highest part or point.

In a supreme manner.

Supremacy.

A prefix signifying over, above, beyond, upon.

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

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.

Something added or appended, as to a name.

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

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

Assurance.

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

The surangular bone.

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

A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.

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.