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A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium. [Obsoles.]

Combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized. [Written also sulphuretted.] Sulphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Hydrogen sulphide, under Hydrogen.

Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Same as Supracretaceous.

More than ethical; above ethics. Bolingbroke.

Supersulphurized. [Obs.] [Written also -sulphuretted.]

Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.

Suretyship. Prov. xi. 15.

The state of being sure; certainty; security. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. Gen. xv. 13. For the more surety they looked round about. Sir P. Sidney.

The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.

ciples or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other. He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial. Baxter. Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy. Krauth-Fleming.

One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; specifically (Eccl. Hist.),

Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]

Same as Taboret.