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Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

Lying or resting on something else.

The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to Ant: pronation.

Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

The act of supplying; a supply. "The supplial of a preposition." Fitzed. Hall.

The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker.

Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. [Obs.] Shak.

A supplying or furnishing; supply. [Obs.] Shak.

Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.

Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.

urface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

hat is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.

of living; as, the city has ample sustenance. "A man of little sustenance." Chaucer. For lying is thy sustenance, thy food. Milton.

e, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep- seated parts, etc.

, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Bacon. They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses. Howell.