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A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

Declaration. [Obs.]

Ornament. [Obs.]

state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

Deploration. [Obs.]

That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

To fail to remember; to forget. [Obs. or Archaic]

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to excrement.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The excrementive parts." Felthman.

To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood

The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

Having no extremes; infinite.

In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.

Intended beforehand; premeditated. [Obs.] Spenser.