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Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like. Holland. The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews. Mark xv. 26.

Being above ground. "Superterranean quarries." Mrs. Trollope.

Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison.

The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby.

s or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

e Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family.

A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

he body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of…

A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

A large African antelope (Alcejaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

gth of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.

specially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.

A toddling walk. Trollope.

An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa. Also, any of various related varieties of other districts south of the Sahara.

arid one of corresponding temperature comprising the northern Great Plains and the lower slopes of the mountains of the western United States and Mexico. Called also Neutral zone.