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ping. When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle.

A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton.

Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc. [Less properly written nett.] Net tonnage (Naut.), the tonnage of a vessel after a deduction from the gross tonnage has been made, to allow space f…

Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over. "So over violent." Dryden. He that gathered much had nothing over. Ex. xvi. 18.

That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak.

Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. [Obs.] "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and…

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

aring, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.

That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison.

ge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn.

r smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

r and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time. If that no spare clothes he had to give. Spenser.