Word Meanings - SUPRAOCCIPITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n.
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- SUPRAOCCIPITAL
Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n. - UPPERMOST
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - OCCIPUT
The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - UPPER
Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To - SITUATION
1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest - SUPPER
A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally - CRUPPER
1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards. - CUPPER
One who performs the operation of cupping. - SUPPERLESS
Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl. - DUPPER
See DUBBER - SCUPPERNONG
An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. - SCUPPER
An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. Scupper hose , a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach