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Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent. [Obs.] Gower. James II. of Scot.

ide; arrogance; presumption; insolence. [Obs.] Chaucer. Then pay you the price of your surquedry. Spenser.

Same as Technic, n.

Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth. The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled. Wordsworth.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet. His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. Motley.

See Toque, 1.

A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

Wreathed; twisted. [R.]

A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

Triquetrous.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.

One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

Not conquerable; indomitable. -- Un*con"quer*a*bly, adv.

Inconsequential. Johnson.

Infrequency.

Infrequent. J. H. Newman. -- Un*fre"quent*ly adv.

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.