Word Meanings - SUPERIMPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.

Related words: (words related to SUPERIMPOSE)

• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• STRATUM
  A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• IMPOSE
  To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• EARTHNUT
  A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
• EARTHEN
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• EARTH SHINE
  See EARTH
• EARTHMAD
  The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• EARTHEN-HEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
• SUPERIMPOSE
  To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.
• EARTHBOARD
  The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
• EARTHWORK
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• SUPERSTRATUM
  A stratum, or layer, above another. (more info) supersternere, superstratum, to spread upon. See Super-, and
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• SUBSTRATUM
  The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance. (more info) substernere to strew under; sub under + sternere to strew. See 1. That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under
• YEARTH
  The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.