(archaic) Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward. / More surpassing, more excelling.

A greeting, farewell or acclamation, especially associated with comic book fandom and famous comic book writer Stan Lee.

(US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.

(used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.

(transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow. / (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out. / (transitive) To uncover (something) by digging.

(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force / extortion.

(telecommunications) A telecommunications switching system, physically located at a customer's place of business, that provides internal communication between users and also access to outside (trunk) telephone lines.

simple past tense and past participle of except

(mathematics, physics) A space in which a generalization of quantum mechanics is described in terms of a system with a finite number of degrees of freedom