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rs erectile, and forming a large ornamental tuft on each shoulder, and a large gorget of brilliant feathers on the breast. The color is deep violet, or nearly black, with brilliant green reflections. The gorget is bright metallic green. -- Superb warber. (Zoöl.) See Blue wren, under Wren. -- Su*perb"ly, adv. -- Su*p…

e deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. Burrill. Daniel. -- Supplementary chords (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.

acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.

Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.

A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease. Burrill.

Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.

and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.

Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.

necting the working beam with the rope carrying the tools, for lowering the tools as the drilling progresses.

A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

ed with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.

party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. Burrill.

witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like. Burrill.

cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.

To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill. [Obs. or Prov.] That with a spear was thirled his breast bone. Chaucer.

Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

ve utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks." Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind. Addison. (d) To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment. (e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. (f) To put out;…

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.