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The office or dignity of a sultan.

Sultanry. [Obs.] Fuller.

A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Floating above or on the surface. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance, n. [Obs.]

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. SUPERNATANT Su`per*na"tant, n. (Chem.)

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

Support. [Obs.] Shak.

A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Ma…

A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction. This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, or tetanic contraction. Foster.

oth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

The production or condition of tetanus.

To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

Resembling tetanus.

An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from t…

A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

A native or inhabitant of Thibet.