Chapter Superannuation to Superintend of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Superfluity
(Su`per*flu"i*ty) n.; pl. Superfluities [L. superfluité, L. superfluitas. See Superfluous.]

1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Suckling.

2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. "By a superfluity abominable." Chaucer.

3. Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.

Syn. — Superabundance; excess; redundancy.

Superfluous
(Su*per"flu*ous) a. [L. superfluus overflowing; super over, above + fluere to flow. See Super-, and Fluent.] More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. Shak.

An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous.

E. Everett.

Superfluous interval (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone.

Syn. — Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless.

— Su*per"flu*ous*ly, adv. — Su*per"flu*ous*ness, n.

Superflux
(Su"per*flux) n. Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing. [R.] Shak.

Superfœtation
(Su`per*fœ*ta"tion) n. Superfetation.

Superfoliation
(Su`per*fo`li*a"tion) n. Excess of foliation. Sir T. Browne.

Superfrontal
(Su`per*fron"tal) n. (Eccl.) A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.

Superfuse
(Su`per*fuse") a. To pour (something) over or on something else. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Superheat
(Su`per*heat") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Superheating.]

1. To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.

2. (Steam Engine) To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.

Superheat
(Su"per*heat`), n. The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.

Superheater
(Su"per*heat`er) n. (Steam Engine) An apparatus for superheating steam.

Superhive
(Su"per*hive`) n. A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.

Superhuman
(Su`per*hu"man) a. Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.

Superimpose
(Su`per*im*pose") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superimposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Superimposing.] To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. — Su`per*im`po*si"tion n.

Superimpregnation
(Su`per*im`preg*na"tion) n. The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.