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ce, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. Emerson. Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

Like plush; soft and shaggy. H. Kingsley.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.

The uttermost point to which one can go or attain; hence, the summit of achievement; the highest point or degree; the acme.

fficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. South.

That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.

An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.

Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

Surplus. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

Surplusage. [Obs.] "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.

That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.

the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the adv…

on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

ssing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. South. The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth. J. S. Mill. Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. Grote.

An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a+b, or 7-3.

f a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.