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The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.

A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

rse, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

aring, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.

An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.

Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character. "Persons of quality." Bacon. Quality binding, a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding carpets, and the like. The quality, those of high rank or station, as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the gentry. I shall appear at t…

lothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.

Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the…

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.

The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

rs a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.