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the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.

A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.] With a linen stock on one leg. Shak.

To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

s or in the processes of the arts. When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. Earl of Strafford. How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.…

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

To eat the evening meal; to take supper. I do entreat that we may sup together.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.

Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

The upper jaw or maxilla.

Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n.

t of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. The bright surface of this ethereous mold. Milton.

A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.

e to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton.