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Built or erected on something else. Hammond.

One who builds a superstructure. [R.] R. North.

ve the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden.

More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.

To subtle. Shak.

An acid sulphate. [Obs.]

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

To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.

The condition or occupation of a sutler.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

The office or employment of a teller.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states.

An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.

as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

A trisulphide.

A trisulphide. [R.]

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.