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

To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

To make (a person) haughty. [Obs. & R.] Feltham.

A bicarbonate. [Obsoles.]

Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

Higher than celestial; superangelic.

To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte.

Deceit; fraud; imposition. [Obs. & R.]

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness, n.

The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

Superfetation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Remote consequence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite. [R.] Sir T. Browne.