Scorched by the sun.

Addison

How many nations of the sunburnt soil Does Niger bless? how many drink the Nile? Blackmore. 'NCLAD. part. adj. [sun and clad] Clothed in radiance; bright.

'NDAY. n. s. [sun and day.] The day anciently dedicated to the sun; the first day of the week; the Christian sabbath.

If thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the print of it, and sigh away Sundays Shak Au' she were not kin to me, she would be as air on Friday as Helen is on Sunday.

Shakesp Troilus and Cressida. At prime they enter'd on the Sunday morn; Rich tap'stry spread the streets.

Dryden.

Our ardent labours for the toys we seek, Join night to day, and Sunday to the week. Young.

n. s.

n.s.

Sanderson.

Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. SUNFLOWER. [corona solis, Lat.] A plant. Miller. SUNFLONER, Little. Thelianthemum, Lat.] A plant. Miller. SUNG. The preterite and participle passive of sing.

A larger rock then heaving from the plain, He whirl'd it round, it sung across the main. Pope. From joining stones the city sprung, Pope. While to his harp divine Amphion sung. SUNK. The preterite and participle pas

sive of sink.

Sunk in Thalestris' arms the nym, h he found. Pope. His spirit quite sunk with those reflections that solitude and disappointment brings, he is utterly undistinguished and forgotten. Swift. SU'NLESS. adj. [from sun. n.] Wanting sun; wanting warmth.

He thrice happy on the sunless side, Beneath the whole collected shade reclines. Thom.

SU'NLIKE. adj. [sun and like.] Resembling the sun.

SUNSET. n. s.

[sun and set.]

When the sun sets the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother's son It rains downright.

Shakesp.

The stars are of greater use than for men to

gaze on after sunset.

Raleigh.

2.

At sunset to their ship they make return, And snore secure on deck till rosy morn. Dryden. He now, observant of the parting ray, Eyes the calm sunset of thy various day. West.

Pupe.

SUNSHINE. n. s. [sun and shine. Milton seems to accent it sunshine.] Action of the sun; place where the heat and lustre of the sun are powerful.

That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, Would he abuse the count'nance of the king, Alack, what mi chiefs might be set abroach, In shadow of such greatness! Shakesp. Henry IV. He had been many years in that sunshine, when Clarendon. a new comet appeared in court. Sight no obstacle found here, nor shade, But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from th' equator.

on the second syllable.] 1. Bright with the sun.

2.

Shakesp.

Perpetual flames, whose unresisted force
O'er sand and ashes and the stubborn flint
Prevailing, turns into a fusile sea,

That in his furnace bubbles sunny red. Philips. 2. Exposed to the sun; bright with the

sun.

About me round I saw

Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murm'ring streams. Milton's Paradise Lost. Him walking on a sunny hill he found. Milton. The filmy gossamer now flits no more, Nor halcyons bask on the short sunny shore. Dry. But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her vallies reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains? Addison. 3. Coloured by the sun. Her sunny locks

Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, Shak. SUNRISE. n.s. [sun and rising.]

About ten in the morning, in sunshiny weather, we took several sorts of paper stained. Boyle. The cases prevent the bees getting abroad upon every sunshine day. Mortimer's Husbandry. Bright like the sun.

The fruitful-headed beast amaz'd

At flashing beams of that sunshiny shield,
Became stark blind, and all his senses daz'd,
That down he tumbled.
Spenser.

To SUP. v. a. [super, Norman Fr. rupan,
Sax. soepen, Dut.] To drink by mouth-
fuls; to drink by little at a time; to sip.
Then took the angry witch her golden cup,
Which still she bore replete with magick arts
Death and despair did many thereof sup. Spenser.
There I'll find a purer air

You'll sup with me?

-Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,

And so shall starve with feeding. Shakesp. Coriol.
When they had supped, they brought Tobias in,
Tobit, viii.
There's none observes, much less repines,
How often this man sups or dines.

Carew. I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales as distinctly as if I had supped with them. Dryden. Late returning honie, he supp'd at ease. Dryd. To SUP. v. a. To treat with supper. He's almost supp'd; why have you left the chamber? Shakesp. Sup them well, and look unto them all. Shak Let what you have within be brought abroad, To sup the stranger. Gapman's Odyssey. 5 G การ

draught; a mouthful of liquor.

Drayton.

Tom Thumb had got a little sup, And Tomalin scarce kist the cup. A pigeon saw the picture of a glass with water in it, and flew eagerly up to 't for a sup to quench her thirst. L'Estrange.

The least transgression of your's, if it be only two bits and one sup more than your stint, is a great debauch. Swift. SUPER. in composition, notes either more than another, or more than enough, or on the top.

SU PERABLE. adj. [superabilis, Lat. superable, Fr.] Conquerable; such as may be overcome. SUPERABLENESS. n. s. [from superable.] Quality of being conquerable. To SUPERABOUND. v. n. [super and abound.] To be exuberant; to be stored with more than enough.

This case returneth again at this time, except the clemency of his majesty superabound. Bacon. She superabounds with corn, which is quickly convertible to coin. Howel. SUPERABUNDANCE. n. s. [super and abundance.] More than enough; great quantity.

The precipitation of the vegetative terrestrial matter at the deluge amongst the sand, was to retrench the luxury and superabundance of the productions of the earth. Woodward.

SUPERABUNDANT. adj. [super and abundant.] Being more than enough. So much superabundant zeal could have no other design than to damp that spirit raised against Wood. Swift. SUPERABUNDANTLY, adv. [from superabundant.] More than sufficiently.

Nothing but the uncreated Infinite can adequately fill and superabundantly satisfy the desire. Cheyne.

To SUPERA'DD. v. a. [superaddo, Lat. ] To add over and above; to join any thing extrinsick.

The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of plumes. L'Estrange

The schools dispute, whether in morals the external action superadds any thing of good or evil to the internal elicit act of the will; but certainly the enmity of our judgments is wrought up to an high pitch before it rages in an open denial South.

The strength of any living creature, in those external motions, is something distinct from and superadded unto its natural gravity.

Wilkins's Mathematical Magick. SUPERADDITION. n. s. [super and addition.]

1. The act of adding to something else.

The fabrick of the eye, its safe and useful situ ation, and the superaddition of muscles, are a certain pledge of the existence of God. 2. That which is added.

More.

If such depravities be yet alive, deformity need not despair, nor will the eldest hopes be ever su Brown. perannuated.

When the sacramental test was put in execution, the justices of peace through Ireland, that had laid down their commissions, amounted only to a dozen, and those of the lowest fortune, and some of them superannuated. Swift. To SUPERANNUATE. v. n. To last beyond the year. Not in use.

annuale.

The dying of the roots of plants that are annual, is by the over-expence of the sap into stalk and leaves; which being prevented, they will superBacon's Natural History. SUPERANNUATION. n. s. [from superannuate,] The state of being disqualified by years.

SUPERB. adj. [superbe, Fr. superbus, Lat.] Grand; pompous; lofty; august; stately magnificent. SUPERB-LILY. A flower. SUPERBLY. adv. [from superb.] In a superb manner.

1. 8. [methonica, Lat.]

SUPERCARGO. n. s. [super and cargo.] An officer in the ship whose business is to manage the trade.

I only wear it in a land of Hectors,
Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors.

Pope. SUPERCELESTIAL. adj. [super and celestial.] Placed above the firmament. I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else, not himself, was increate and eternal. Raleigh. Many were for fetching down I know not what supercelestial waters for the purpose. Woodward's Natural History. SUPERCHE'RY. n. s. [An old word of French original.] Deceit; cheating. SUPERCILIOUS. adj. [from supercilium, Lat.] Haughty; dogmatical; dictatorial; arbitrary; despotick; overbearing.

Those who are one while courteous, within a small time after are so supercilious, fierce, and exceptious, that they are short of the true character of friendship. South.

Several supercilious criticks will treat an author with the greatest contempt, if he fancies the old Romans wore a girdle. Addison.

SUPERCI LIOUSLY. adv. [from supercilious] Haughtily; dogmatically; contemptuously.

He, who was a punctual man in point of honour, received this address superciliously enough, sent it to the king without performing the least ceremony. Clarendon.

ness.

SUPERCRESCENCE. n. s. [super cresco, Lat.] That which grows up another growing thing.

Wherever it groweth it maintains a rep figure, like other supererescences, and like s living upon the stock of others, are termed are tical plants. Brown's Vulgar Ern SUPERE MINENCE. Įn. s. [super a SUPEREMINENCY. emineo, Lat. [:common degree of eminence; emine above others though eminent.

The archbishop of Canterbury, as he is pric over all England and metropolitan, has a se eminency, and even some power over the bishop of York. SUPEREMINENT. adj.

Auliffe's Parsg. [super and nent.] Eminent in a high degree.

As humility is in suiters a decent vinte, s the testification thereof by such effectual acs. V ledgments not only argueth a sound apprehens Z of his supereminent glory and majesty before wa we stand, but putteth also into bis hauds of pledge or bond for security against our unde fulness. He SUPEREMINENTLY. adv. [from super eminent.] In the most eminent manne To SUPEREROGATE. v. n. [super ar erogatio, Lat.] To do more than duy requires.

So by an abbey's skeleton of late, I heard an eccho supererogate

ance.

Through imperfection, and the voice restore, As if she had the hiccup o'er and c'er. Clevela Aristotle acted his own instructions, and us.tsequious sectators have supererogated in chsenGlanville's Scopa [from supe rerogate.] Performance of more th duty requires.

SUPErerogation.

n. s.

There is no such thing as works of supererogstion; no man can do more than needs, and is is duty to do, by way of preparation for anothe world. THE SUPEREROGATORY. adj. [from superrogate.] Performed beyond the strict demands of duty.

Supererogatory services, and too great bereft from subjects to kings, are of dangerous conse

quence.

How

SUPEREXALTATION. n. s. [super and exult.] Elevation above the commo

rate.

In a superexaltation of courage, they seems greedy of death as of victory. Helpd SUPEREXCELLENT. adj. [super and ecellent.] Excellent beyond commer degrees of excellence.

We discern not the abuse; suffer him to per suade us that we are as gods, something so superexcellent, that all must reverence and adore. Decay of Piet SUPEREXCRESCENCE. n. s. [super an excrescence.] Something superfluously growing.

As the escar separated between the scarifcations, I rubbed the superexcrescence of flesh with the vitriol stone. Wiseman.

tion.

The female brings forth twice in one month, and so is said to superfetate; which, saith Aristotle, is because her eggs are hatched in her one after another. Grew's Mustan. SUPERFETA TION. n. s. [superfetation, Fr. from superfetate.] One conception following another, so that both are in the womb together, but come not to their full time for delivery together. Quincy.

Superfetation must be by abundance of sap in SUPERFLU'ITANCE. the bough that putteth it forth.. Bac. Nat. Hist.

If the superfetation be made with considerable

intermission, the latter most commonly becomes abortive; for the first being confirmed engrosseth the aliment from the other. Brown.

U'PERFICE. n. s. [superficie, Fr. superficies, Lat] Outside; surface.

Then if it rise not to the former height

Of superfice, conclude that soil is light. Dryden. UPERFICIAL. adj. [superficiel, Fr. from superficies, Lat.]

". Lying on the surface; not reaching below the surface.

That, upon the superficial ground, heat and moisture cause putrefaction, in England is found Bacon.

not true.

From these phænomena several have concluded some general rupture in the superficial parts of the earth. Burnet There is not one infidel living so ridiculous as to pretend to solve the phænomena of sight, or cogitation, by those fleeting superficial films of bodies. Bentley.

. Shallow; contrived to cover something. This superficial tale

Is but a preface to her worthy praise.Shak. H.VI. 3. Shallow; not profound; smattering, not learned.

Their knowledge is so very superficial, and so ill-grounded, that it is impossible for them to describe in what consists the beauty of those works. Dryden. SUPERFICIALITY. n. s. [from superficial.] The quality of being superficial.

By these salts the colours of bodies receive degrees of lustre or obscurity, superficialty or profundity.

Brown.

SUPERFICIALLY. adv. [from superficial.] 1. On the surface; not below the surface. 2. Without penetration; without close heed.

Perspective hath been with some diligence inquired; but the nature of sounds in general hath been superficially observed. Bacon's Natural Hist. His eye so superficially surveys

These things, as not to mind from whence they grow,

Milton's Paradise Lost

Deep under ground. 3. Without going deep; without searching to the bottom of things.

You have said well;

But on the cause and question now in hand, Have gloz'd but superficially. Shak. Troil. and Cres. I have laid down superficially my present thoughts. Dryden. SUPERFICIALNESS. n. s. [from superficial.]

1. Shallowness; position on the surface. 2. Slight knowledge; false appearance; show without substance. SUPERFICIES. n. s. [Lat.] Ouside; surface; superfice.

He on her superficies stretch'd his line. Sandys. A convex mirrour makes objects in the middle to come out from the superficies. the painter must, in respect of the light and shadows of his figures, give them more relievo. Dryden SUPERFINE. adj. [super and fine.] Eminently fine.

Some, by this journey of Jason, understand the mystery of the philosopher's stone; to which also other superfine chymists draw the twelve labours L'Estrange.

of Hercules.

may

If you observe your cyder, by interposing it between a candle and your eye, to be very transparent, it be called superfine. Mort. Husbandry. SUPERFLUENCE. n. s. [super and fluo, Lat.] More than is necessary.

The superfluence of grace is ordinarily proportioned to the faithful discharge of former trusts, making use of the foregoing sufficient grace. Ham.

n. s.

[super and] Auito, Lat.] The act of floating above. Sperma ceti, which is a superfluitance on the sea, is not the sperm of a whale. Brown's Vulg. Frr.| A chalky earth, beaten and steeped in water, affordeth a cream or fatness on the top, and al gross subsidence at the bottom: out of the cream, or superfluitance, the finest dishes are made; out of the residence, the coarser. Brown.

SUPERFLU'ITANT. adj. [superfluitans, Lat.] Floating above. SUPERFLU'ITY. n. s. [superfluité, Fr. from superfluous] More than enough; plenty beyond use or necessity. Not

in use.

Having this way eased the church, as they thought, of superfluity, they went on till they had plucked up even those things which also had taken Hooker. a great deal deeper root.

Custom and corruption superinduce upon us a kind of necessity of going on as we began. L'Estr. Father is a notion superinduced to the substance or man, and refers only to an act of that thing called man, whereby he contributed to the gene ration of one of his own kind, let man be what it will. Locke.

Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires, like the distemper of the soul, feeding only upon filth and corruption. South. 2. To bring on as a thing not originally belonging to that on which it is brought. Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but something extraneous and superinduced Locke.

In children, savages, and ill-natured people, learning not having cast their native thoughts into new moulds, mor, by superinducing foreign doctrines, confounded those fair characters nature had written, their innate notions might lie open. Locke. SUPERINDUCTION. [from super and induce.] The act of superinducing. A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue; the superinduction of ill habits quickly defaces it.

n. s.

I think it superfluous to use any words of a sub ject so raised in itself as it needs no praises. Sid When a thing ceaseth to be available unto the end which gave it being, the continuance of it must then appear superfluous. Hooker.

Our superfluous lacqueys and our peasants, Who in unnecessary action swarm About our squares of battle. Shakesp. Henry V. A proper title of a peace, and purchas'd At a superfluous rate.

Shakesp.

As touching the ministring to the saints, it is 2 Corin. ix. 1. superfluous to write. Horace will our superfluous branches prune, Give us new rules, and set our harps in tune. Rose. If ye know,

Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain? Milt. His conscience chear'd him with a life well s, ent, His prudence a superfluous something lent, Which made the poor who took, and poor who Harte. gave, content. SUPERFLUOUSNESS. n. s. [from superfluous.] The state of being superfluous. SUPERFLUX. [super and fluxus, Lat.] That which is more than is wanted.

n. s.

South.

[super and injection.] An injection succeeding another. Dict.

SUPERINSTITUTION. n. s. [super and institution. In law.] One institution upon another; as if A be instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B be instituted and admitted by the presentation of another. Bailey.

To SUPERINTEND. v. a. [super and intend.] To oversee; to overlook; to take care of others with authority.

The king will appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature, and regulate what concerns the colonies. Bacon's Adviceto Villiers. This argues design, and a superintending wisdom, power and providence in this special business of food.

Derham.

Angels, good or bad, must be furnished with prodigious knowledge, to oversee Persia and Grecia of old; or if any such superintend the affairs of Great Britain now. Watts,

SUPERINTENDENCE. n. s. [from suSUPERINTENDENCY. per and intend.] Superiour care; the act of overseeing with authority.

Such an universal superintendency has the eye and hand of Providence over all, even the most minute and inconsiderable things. South.

The divine Providence, which hath a visible respect to the being of every man, is yet more observable in its superintendency over societies. Grew. An admirable indication of the divine superintendence and management. Derham.

SUPERINTENDENT. n. s. [superintendant, Fr. from superintend] One who overlooks others authoritatively.

Next to Brama, one Deundre is the superintend ent deity, who hath many more under him. Stillingfleet.

The world pays a natural veneration to men of virtue, and rejoice to see themselves conducted by those who act under the care of a Supreme Being, and who think themselves accountable to the great Judge and Superintendent of human affairs. Addis. SUPERIORITY. n. s. [from superiour.] Pre-eminence; the quality of being greater or higher than another in any respect.

Bellarmine makes the formal act of adoration to be subjection to a superiour; but he makes the mere apprehension of excellency to include the formal reason of it; whereas, mere excellency without superiority doth not require any subjec Stilling feet. tion, but only estimation.

tive.]

1. In a manner of speech expressing the highest degree.

In commending another, you do yourself right. for he that you commend is either superiour to you in that you commend, or inferiour: if he be inferiour, if he be to be commended, you much more if he be superiour, if he be not to be commended, you much less glorious. Bacon. Although superior to the people, yet not superior to their own voluntary engagements once passed from them. Taylor. Heaven takes part with the oppressed, and tyrants are upon their behaviour to a superior power. L'Estrange. Superior beings above us, who enjoy perfect happiness, are more steadily determined in their choice of good than we, and yet they are not less happy or less free that we are Locke.

He laughs at men of far superior understandings to his, for not being as well dressed as himself. Swift.

2. Upper; higher locally.

By the refraction of the second prism, the breadth of the image was not increased; but its superior part, which in the first prism suffered the greater refraction, and appeared violet and blue, did again in the second prism suffer a greater refraction than its inferiour part, which appeared red and yellow. Newton's Opticks.

3. Free from emotion or concern; un

Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought.

Here passion first I felt Commotion strange! in all enjoyments else Superior and unmov'd.

Milton.

Milton.

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superiour to his sufferings. Addison's Spectator. SUPE'RIOUR. n.s. One more excellent or dignified than other.

Those under the great officers of state have more frequent opportunities for the exercise of benevolence than their superiours. Addison's Spectator. SUPERLATION. n. s. [superlatio, Lat.] Exaltation of any thing beyond truth or propriety.

There are words that as much raise a style as others can depress it; superlation and overmuchness amplifies: it may be above faith, but not Ben Jonson.

above a mean.

2.

I shall not speak superlatively of them; but that I may truly say, they are second to none in the Christian world.

In the highest degree.

Bacon.

Tiberius was bad enough in his youth; but superlatively and monstrously so in his old age.South. The Supreme Being is a spirit most excellently glorious, superlatively powerful, wise and good, Creator of all things. Bentley SUPERLATIVENESS. [from superlative.] The state of being in the highest degree.

n.s.

above us.

By heaven and earth was meant the solid matter and substance, as well of all the heavens and orbs supernal, as of the globe of the earth, and waters which covered it. Raleigh.

2. Relating to things above; placed above; celestial; heavenly.

That supernal Judge that stirs good thoughts In any breast of strong authority, To look into the blots and stains of right. Shakesp. He with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers, On errands of supernal grace.

Milton. Both glorying to have 'scap'd the Stygian flood, As gods, and by their own recover'd strength, Not by the suff'rance of supernal pow'r. Milton. SUPERNATANT. adj. [supernatans, Lat.] Swimming above.

Whilst the substance continued fluid, I could shake it with the supernatant menstruum, without

making between them any true union. Boyle. SUPERNATATION. n. s. [from supernato, Lat.] The act of swimming on the top of any thing.

Touching the supernatation of bodies, take of aquafortis two ounces, of quicksilver two drams, the dissolution will not bear a flint as big as a nutmeg. Bacon's Natural History.

Bodies are differenced by supernatation, as floating on water; for chrystal will sink in water, as carrying in its own bulk a greater ponderosity than the space of any water it doth occupy; and will therefore only swim in molten metal and quicksilver. Brown's Vulgar Errours. SUPERNATURAL. adj. [super and natural.] Being above the powers of

nature.

There resteth either no way unto salvation, or, if any, then surely a way which is supernatural, a way which could never have entered into the heart of a man, as much as once to conceive or

imagine, if God himself had not revealed it extraordinarily; for which cause wc term it the mystery or secret way of salvation. Hooker.

When supernatural duties are necessarily exacted, natural are not rejected as needless. Hooker. The understanding is secured by the perfection of its own nature, or by supernatural assistance.

Tillotson.

adj [superni raire, Fr. super and numerus, Being above a stated, a necessary, a usual, or a round number.

Well if thrown out, as suPERNU METATY To my just number found! Milton's Paradise Les In sixty-three years there may be lust eighes days, omitting the intercalation of one day ery fourth year, allowed for this quadrant or six tim supernumerary.

Ben

The odd or supernumerary six hours are not acounted in the three years after the leap year. Halie

Besides occasional and supernumerary address, Hammond's certain perpetual returus excret David's seven times a day.

Fe

The produce of this tax is adequate to the ses vices for which it is designed, and the add tier tax is proportioned to the supernumerary OCZ this year. Addison's Frecha. Antiochus began to augment his fleet; butte Roman senate ordered his supernumerary voici to be burnt. Arbusa

A supernumerary canon is one who does tre ceive any of the profits or emoluments of the church, but only lives and serves there on a foter expectation of some prebend. As SUPERPLANT. n. s.

[super and plant. A plant growing upon another plant. No superplant is a formed plant but misiete SU'PERPLUSAGE. n. s.

SUPERPURGATION. n. s. [superpurgs tion, Fr. super and purgation.] More purgation than enough.

There happening a superpurgation, he declivec the repeating of that purge. Wiseman's Surgery, SUPERREFLEXION. n. s. [super and reflexion.] Reflexion of an image reflec ted.

Place one glass before and another behind, y shall see the glass behind with the image wi the glass before, and again the glass before in the and divers such superreflexions, till the setz Bacon's Natural Histere speciei at last die. SUPERSA'LIENCY. n.s. [super and salia, Lat.] This were better written supersiliency.] The act of leaping upon any thing.

Their coition is by supersaliency, like that of
Eropa.

horses.

is possible that such a general flood should come, by any natural means. And if it be supernatural, that grants the thing I am proving, namely, such a supreme being as can alter the course of nature.

Wilkins.

Fabretti and others believe, that by the tw Fortunes were only meant in general the goddest