Superb \Su*perb"\, a. [F. superbe, L. superbus, fr. super over. See {Super-}.] 1. Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.
2. Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
3. Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.
{Superb paradise bird} (Zo["o]l.), a bird of paradise ({Paradis[ae]a superba} syn. {Lophorina superba}) having the scapulars erectile, and forming a large ornamental tuft on each shoulder, and a large gorget of brilliant feathers on the breast . The color is deep violet, or nearly black, with brilliant green reflections. The gorget is bright metallic green.
{Superb warber}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Blue wren}, under {Wren}. ※ -- {Su*perb"ly}, adv. -- {Su*perb"ness}, n.
At a concert recently, featuring a violin virtuoso and a piano accompanist, the virtuoso played beautifully and the accompanist was superb.
The dust jacket of Mort Rosenblum's book on French culture and the French, "Mission to Civilize" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 470 pages, $19.95), displays a superb drawing by the cartoonist Sempe.
For superb Kobe steaks and Japanese beer, the smoky Misu's Kitchen on Patpong 1 is a must. Entertainment? Bangkok is as notorious for its night life as for its traffic - again, justly.
"On this, Baker has been superb," Eagleburger said. "I think I've got a pretty good sense of where he is going to come out on an issue.
My father was a superb pianist; my mother's a very fine painter.
Director Pat O'Connor previously directed 'The Ballroom Of Romance', a superb television drama.
Moreover, while she has done a superb job on the Saigon situation in 1963, she has overlooked some interesting facets at the Washington end.
Of course it sets an unwelcome precedent, but no comparable institution has such magnificent pictures and after this furore Royal Holloway is unlikely to split up its superb art collection.
To get the best from Rustem Pasha means waiting until light filtering from the dome brings out the richness of superb glass and tiles.
But it makes a superb house. No 404b Fulham Road, SW6 remains in use as an artist's studio with unpretentious, semi-open plan living space for one or two people and room for a possible extension.
The 21-year-old is a return to sherry with a nutty richness about it: a superb whisky; the 25-year-old is a classic after-dinner whisky with great weight, built in a rich fruity style.
Call ran a store on Louse Creek and needed an apprentice for his black slave, Nearest Green, who was a superb maker of the store's most prominent product, whiskey.
"It's a superb fit with our franchise, and it would strengthen us in strategic markets," says Russell Page, NCNB's senior vice president of corporate communications.
His reason, simply, is that Smith's "is superb at the supermarket business."
Lemons at 15-25p each (15-25p) and Naval oranges at 10-30p each (10-30p), depending on size, remain superb fruit buys.
"Aspiring Pundit" Peter Kann has provided us with a superb summation of the things that were wrong with the press coverage of the war.
In the Firebird, the premium sound system with graphic equalizer, a $150 option, was superb; and the smallish, thick steering wheel seemed a perfect fit.
The Voyager test vehicle had superb fit and finish, inside and out.
Fit and finish on the test car was superb.
Here - and the music is cast-iron theatre - he devises a solo for Barrett that conveys the compulsive and convulsive nature of the sacrifice, which Barrett performs with superb control and force.
It is not a great production, but serves the play well enough to let Williams' superb craftsmanship come through.
Edur is superb, an Apollonian premier danseur who uses the classical vocabulary as his native tongue, and can speak of feeling as well as of the beauties of academic propriety.
New details included rounded collars cut away to reveal little, ascot-like ties on superb silk blouses.
This makes grave and compelling theatre. If Anna Reynolds' stage-writing debut seems over-emphatic, it is everywhere blessed with a superb, strong performance from co-writer and solo actor Moira Buffini as Shirley.
"The world coverage is superb.
Woodfield Brothers, of Tiddington, near Stratford-upon-Avon (0789-205618), crowned their superb display of new lupins with a pale pinkish number called Gloria Hunniford.
Sauternes with Roquefort is fabulous, and German Auslesen are superb with the creamy blues of Germany and Denmark.
Hearings will be held on two bills that would crimp the Fed's fierce independence in quite different ways, with both measures sponsored by congressmen who insist the Fed's recent record is superb.
He called Raphel "a man of immense ability who'd been doing a superb job." At the State Department, spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said, "We mourn the loss of Ambassador Raphel.
"I don't think we would be against 20-to-1 leverage if he had superb profitability in that organization," Mr. Pinkes said.