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sŭper-cĭlĭum , ii, n. super and root kal-; Gr. καλύπτω; Lat. celāre, to hide, cover; cf. Gr. κύλον, ἐπικύλιον, eyelid; cf. also, Ang.-Sax. hlid; Engl. lid; Germ. Augenlid:
I. Lit., the eye-brow (good prose; more freq. in the plur.).
B. Transf., the prominent part of a thing, the brow, ridge, summit (not ante-Aug.): “clivosi tramitis,Verg. G. 1, 108: “tumuli,Liv. 34, 29, 11: “infimo stare supercilio,at the bottom of the projection, id. 27, 18, 10; cf. Stat. Th. 6, 63: supercilium quoddam excelsum nacti, Auct. B. Afr. 58, 1; Plin. 6, 5, 5, § 17.—In archit., a projecting moulding over the scotia of a column or cornice, Vitr. 3, 3 med.; a threshold, id. 4, 6, 5.—Of the coast of the sea: “supercilia ejus sinistra,Amm. 22, 8, 8; the shore of a river: “Nili,id. 14, 8, 5: “Rheni,id. 14, 10, 6: “fluminis,id. 17, 9, 1: “amnis,App. M. 5, p. 169, 34.—
II. Trop.
A. The nod, the will: “cuncta supercilio movens,Hor. C. 3, 1, 8; Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 2, 58.—
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