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To treat or regard as supernatural.

In a supernatural manner.

The quality or state of being supernatural.

Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.

Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.

A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.

Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. Shenstone.

transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.

A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.

Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.

Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly, adv.

Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

The number three; three things together; a ternary. Bp. Hall.

A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]

A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.