Su`per*nac"u*lar (?), a. Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a
supernacular wine. [R.] Thackeray.
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.