Word Meanings - SUPERDREADNOUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before.
ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
ABOVE-CITED
Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
ABOVE
1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in