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Superior to the angels in nature or rank. [R.] Milman.

Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

ited States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department.

Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. [Slang] Swell mob. See under Mob. [Slang]

People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. [Jocose]

n a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.

A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover. Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus. Arbuthnot.

commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.

re more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin.

; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.

dvowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.

s thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. Cowper. Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Trench.

hing of that kind; all that sort. With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope. The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd [gold] for a'that. Burns. -- For that. See under For, prep. -- In that. See under In, prep.

To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.

signating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the…

Producing or bearing frankincense.