a. Trig. Also 8 sup.versed; 9 erron. (in Dicts.) subversed. [Orig. sup.versed, f. sup., abbrev. of supplement + VERSED; cf. CO-VERSED.] Suversed sine: the versed sine of the supplement.
1782. Hutton, in Phil. Trans., LXXIV. 32. The sum of the radius and cosine will be the sup. versed sine.
1827. Airy, in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), I. 674. The versed sine of one is the suversed sine of the other.
