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A following edge. See Advancing edge, above.

To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds. Howell.

Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] "Where transcendencies are more allowed." Bacon.

s of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

ds (Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons. -- Tree lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Tree crab, above. -- Tree louse (Zoöl.), any aphid; a plant louse. -- Tree moss. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. -- Tree mouse (Zoöl.), any one of several species of…

The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royal antler.

In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.

oof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

of an acrobat. Rowe. To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. Milton.

in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

orked on a rope with a piece of small line. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See Turk's cap (c) above. -- Turk's turban (Bot.), a plant of the genus Ranunculus; crowfoot.

pert. to, a mixed racial type including the Afghans, and characterized chiefly by stature above mean, fair complexion, dark, or sometimes gray, eyes, brachycephaly, and very long, prominent, and moderately narrow nose.

The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

ns he dying left under age. Spenser. Medicines take effect sometimes under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their virtue. Hooker. There are several hundred parishes in England under twenty pounds a year. Swift. It was too great an honor for any man under a duke. Addison.

Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.