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To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

Having no stipend.

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

nishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous sum." Macaulay. All are but parts of one stupendous whole. Pope. -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. -- Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.

Situated under the endocardium.

Situated under the endyma.

Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.

To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another.

power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature. Bacon.

The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow.

The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.

Overseeing; superintending.

A superintendent. [R.]

Superintendent. [R.]

her; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.

One who surrenders.

One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.

Surrender. [Obs.]