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Parergy :: Parergy (n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous..

Superfamily :: Superexcrescence (n.) Something growing superfluously.

Extravagance :: Extravagance (n.) The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Blotter :: Blotter (n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink..

Expletory :: Expletory (a.) Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word..

Pruning :: Pruning (n.) The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous..

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..

Luxuriate :: Luxuriate (v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Redundancy :: Redundancy (n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.

Over :: Over (adv.) Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over..

Waste :: Waste (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

Supervened :: Supervacaneous (a.) Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless.

Terse :: Terse (superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style..

Drainage :: Drainage (n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works..

Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time..

Expletive :: Expletive (a.) Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous..

Superfluity :: Superfluity (n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.

Prune :: Prune (v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay..

Corollary :: Corollary (n.) That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous..

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