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The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale. Busby.

Tragical to excess.

The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.

Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless. [Obs.] Howell.

omething else; to be added; to take place; to happen. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley. A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.

s something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards. That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice. Hammond. Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes. Z. Swift.

The act of supervening. Bp. Hall.

Supervision. Walpole.

To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.

The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.

Supervisory. [R.]

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. [Obs.]

Having a plainted 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.

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

Supineness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.