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Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content. [R.] Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee), Not to believe a thing. Beau. & Fl.

To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment. [Obs.] He could in little thing have suffisaunce. Chaucer.

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

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

hallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

ysics; not explainable by physical laws. Something superphysical and superchemical. J. Le Conte.

To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.

A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents. [Obs.] King. Surprise party, a party of persons who assemble by mutual agreement, and without invitation, at the house of a common friend. [U.S.] Bartlett.

An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.

n of arms (Mil.), a short truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for surrender or for peace, etc. -- Suspension scale, a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.…

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

Contemporaneous chronology.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism. [R.] Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony. Huxley.

yself sensible to tact as well as sight Southey. Now, sight is a very refined tact. J. Le Conte.

under tail coverts. -- Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail o…

d." Addison. -- To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] Locke. -- To take up with. (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an exten…

us person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.

The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks.

language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective. With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts. Shak. With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest. Prior.