Definition of Superneculum
Su`per*nac"u*lum (?), adv. & n. [NL.,
from L. super over + G. nagel, a nail, as of the finger,
or a corruption of L. super and ungulam claw.]
1. A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean,
upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares.
Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a
device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath
turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a
pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he can not make it
stand on by reason there is too much, he must drink again for his
penance. Nash.
2. Good liquor, of which not enough is left to
wet one's nail. Grose.
Su`per*nac"u*lum (?), adv. & n. [NL.,
from L. super over + G. nagel, a nail, as of the finger,
or a corruption of L. super and ungulam claw.]
1. A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean,
upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares.
Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a
device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath
turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a
pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he can not make it
stand on by reason there is too much, he must drink again for his
penance. Nash.
2. Good liquor, of which not enough is left to
wet one's nail. Grose.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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