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Substylar
SUBSTY'LAR, adjective In dialing, the substylar line, is a right line on which the gnomon or style is erected at right angles with the plane.
Substyle
SUB'STYLE, noun [sub and style.] In dialing, the line on which the gnomon stands.
Subsulphate
SUBSULPH'ATE, noun A sulphate with an excess of the base.
Subsultive
SUBSULT'IVE
SUBSULT'ORILY, adverb In a bounding manner; by leaps, starts or twitches.
Subsultorily
SUBSULT'ORILY, adv. In a bounding manner; by leaps, starts or twitches.
Subsultory
SUBSULT'ORY, adjective [from Latin subsultus, a leap, from subsulto; sub and salio.] Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts, or by twitches.
Subsultus
SUBSULT'US, noun [Latin] In medicine, a twitching or convulsive motion; as subsultus tendinum.
Subsume
SUBSU'ME, verb transitive [Latin sub and sumo.] To assume as a position by consequence. [Not used.]
Subtangent
SUBTAN'GENT, noun In geometry, the part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
Subtend
SUBTEND', verb transitive [Latin sub and tendo, to stretch.] To extend under; as the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; to subtend the chord of an arch. A line from the eye to a planet, subtends an angle of 40 degrees with the horizon.
Subtended
SUBTEND'ED, participle passive Extended under.
Subtending
SUBTEND'ING, participle present tense Extending under.
Subtense
SUBTENSE, noun subtens'. [Latin sub and tenus.] The chord of an arch or arc.
Subtepid
SUBTEP'ID, adjective [Latin sub and tepidus, warm.] Moderately warm.
Subter
SUB'TER, a Latin preposition, signifies under.
Subterfluent
SUBTER'FLUENT
SUBTER'FLUOUS, adjective [Latin subterfluens, subterfluo.]
Running under or beneath.
Subterfluous
SUBTER'FLUOUS, a. [L. subterfluens, subterfluo.]
Running under or beneath.
Subterfuge
SUB'TERFUGE, noun [Latin subter and fugio, to flee.] Literally, that to which a person resorts for escape or concealment; hence, a shift; an evasion; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument.
Subterrane
SUBTERRA'NE, noun [infra.] A cave or room under ground.
Subterranean
SUBTERRA'NEAN
SUBTERRA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin subter, under, and terra, earth.] Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth or under ground; as subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
[Subterraneal and Subterrany, are not in use.]
Subterraneous
SUBTERRA'NEOUS, a. [L. subter, under, and terra, earth.] Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth or under ground; as subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
[Subterraneal and Subterrany, are not in use.]
Subterranity
SUBTERRA'NITY, noun A place under ground. [Not in use.]
Subterrany
SUB'TERRANY, noun What lies under ground. [Not in use.]
Subtil
SUB'TIL, adjective [Latin subtilis. This word is often written subtle, but less properly.]
1. Thin; not dense or gross; as subtil air; subtil vapor; a subtil medium.
2. Nice; fine; delicate.
I do distinguish plain
Each subtil line of her immortal face.
3. Acute; piercing; as subtil pain.
4. Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; insinuating; as a subtil person; a subtil adversary.
5. Planned by art; deceitful; as a subtil scheme.
6. Deceitful; treacherous.
7. Refined; fine; acute; as a subtil argument.
Subtiliate
SUBTIL'IATE, verb transitive To make thin. [Not in use.]
Subtiliation
SUBTILIA'TION, noun The act of making thin or rare. [Not in use.]
Subtility
SUBTIL'ITY, noun Fineness.
Subtilization
SUBTILIZA'TION, noun [from subtilize.]
1. The act of making subtil, fine or thin. In the laboratory, the operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.
2. Refinement; extreme acuteness.
Subtilize
SUB'TILIZE, verb transitive [Latin subtilis.]
1. To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.
2. To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments.
SUB'TILIZE, verb intransitive To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.
In whatever manner the papist might subtilize--
Subtilly
SUB'TILLY, adverb Thinly; not densely.
1. Finely; not grossly or thickly.
The opakest bodies, if subtilly divided--become perfectly transparent.
2. Artfully; cunningly; craftily; as a scheme subtilly contrived.
Subtilness
SUB'TILNESS, noun Thinness; rareness; as the subtilness of air.
1. Fineness; acuteness; as the subtilness of an argument.
2. Cunning; artfulness; as the subtilness of a foe.
Subtilty
SUB'TILTY, noun [Latin subtilitas.]
1. Thinness; fineness; exility; in a physical sense; as the subtilty of air or light; the subtilty of sounds.
2. Refinement; extreme acuteness.
Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtilty in nice divisions.
3. Slyness in design; cunning; artifice; usually but less properly written subtlety.
Subtle
SUB'TLE, adjective [See Subtil.] Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; applied to persons; as a subtle foe.
1. Cunningly devised; as a subtle stratagem.
Subtly
SUB'TLY, adverb Slyly; artfully; cunningly.
Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise.
1. Nicely; delicately.
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true.
Subtract
SUBTRACT', verb transitive [Latin subtraho, subtractus; sub and traho, to draw.]
To withdraw or take a part from the rest; to deduct. subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Subtracted
SUBTRACT'ED, participle passive Withdrawn from the rest; deducted.
Subtracter
SUBTRACT'ER, noun He that subtracts.
1. The number to be taken from a larger number. [Not used.]
Subtracting
SUBTRACT'ING, participle present tense Withdrawing from the rest; deducting.
Subtraction
SUBTRAC'TION, noun [Latin subtractio.] The act or operation of taking a part from the rest.
1. In arithmetic, the taking of a lesser number from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation by which is found the difference between two sums.
Subtractive
SUBTRACT'IVE, adjective Tending or having power to subtract.
Subtrahend
SUBTRAHEND', noun In arithmetic, the sum or number to be subtracted or taken from another.
Subtrifid
SUBTRI'FID, adjective Slightly trifid.
Subtriple
SUBTRIP'LE, adjective [sub and triple.] Containing a third or one part of three.
Subtriplicate
SUBTRIP'LICATE, adjective In the ratio of the cubes.
Subtutor
SUBTU'TOR, noun [sub and tutor.] An under tutor.
Subulate
SUB'ULATE, adjective [Latin subula, an awl.] In botany, shaped like an awl; awl-shaped. A subulate leaf, is linear at the bottom, but gradually tapering towards the end.
Suburb
SUB'URB
SUBURB'AN, adjective [Latin suburbanus. See Suburbs.] Inhabiting or being in the suburbs of a city.
Suburban
SUBURB'AN, a. [L. suburbanus. See Suburbs.] Inhabiting or being in the suburbs of a city.
Suburbed
SUB'URBED, adjective Bordering on a suburb; having a suburb on its out part.
Suburbicarian
SUBURBICA'RIAN
SUBURB'ICARY, adjective [Low Latin suburbicarius.] Being in the suburbs; an epithet applied to the provinces of Italy which composed the ancient diocese of Rome.
Suburbicary
SUBURB'ICARY, a. [Low L. suburbicarius.] Being in the suburbs; an epithet applied to the provinces of Italy which composed the ancient diocese of Rome.
Suburbs
SUB'URBS, noun [Latin suburbium; sub and urbs, a city.]
1. A building without the walls of a city, but near them; or more generally, the parts that lie without the walls, but in the vicinity of a city. The word may signify buildings, streets or territory. We say, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden is situated in the suburbs of London or Paris.
2. The confines; the out part.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel.
Subvariety
SUBVARI'ETY, noun [sub and variety.] A subordinate variety, or division of a variety.
Subventaneous
SUBVENTA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin subventaneus; sub and ventus.]
Addle; windy. [A bad word and not in use.]
Subvention
SUBVEN'TION, noun [Latin subvenio.] The act of coming under.
1. The act of coming to relief; support; aid. [Little used.]
Subverse
SUBVERSE, verb transitive subvers'. To subvert. [Not in use.]
Subversion
SUBVER'SION, noun [Latin subversio. See Subvert.] Entire overthrow; an overthrow of the foundation; utter ruin; as the subversion of a government or state; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution or laws; the subversion of an empire.
Subversive
SUBVERS'IVE, adjective Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Every immorality is subversive of private happiness. Public corruption of morals is subversive of public happiness.
Subvert
SUBVERT', verb transitive [Latin subverto; sub and verto, to turn.]
1. To overthrow from the foundation; to overturn; to ruin utterly. The northern nations of Europe subverted the Roman empire. He is the worst enemy of man, who endeavors to subvert the christian religion. The elevation of corrupt men to office will slowly, but surely, subvert a republican government.
This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.
2. To corrupt; to confound; to pervert the mind, and turn it from the truth. .
Subverted
SUBVERT'ED, participle passive Overthrown; overturned; entirely destroyed.
Subverter
SUBVERT'ER, noun One who subverts; an overthrower.
Subverting
SUBVERT'ING, participle present tense Overthrowing; entirely destroying.
Subworker
SUBWORK'ER, noun [sub and worker.] A subordinate worker or helper.
Succedaneous
SUCCEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin succedaneus; sub and cedo.] Supplying the place of something else; being or employed as a substitute.
Succedaneum
SUCCEDA'NEUM, noun [supra.] That which is used for something else; a substitute.
Succede
SUCCE'DE
SUCCEE'D, verb transitive The first is the more analogical spelling, as in concede, recede. [Latin succedo; sub and cedo, to give way, to pass.]
1. To follow in order; to take the place which another has left; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
John Adams succeeded Gen. Washington in the presidency of the United States. Lewis XVIII of France has lately deceased, and is succeeded by his brother Charles X.
2. To follow; to come after; to be subsequent or consequent.
Those destructive effects succeeded the curse.
3. To prosper; to make successful.
Succeed my wish, and second my design.
SUCCEE'D, verb intransitive To follow in order.
Not another comfort like to this,
Succeeds in unknown fate.
1. To come in the place of one that has died or quitted the place, or of that which has preceded. Day succeeds to night, and night to day.
Enjoy till I return
Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed.
Revenge succeeds to love, and rage to grief.
2. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous termination. The enemy attempted to take the fort by storm, but did not succeed. The assault was violent, but the attempt did not succeed.
It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.
3. To terminate with advantage; to have a good effect.
Spenser endeavored imitation in the Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.
4. To go under cover.
Or will you to the cooler cave succeed? [Not much used.]
Succeed
SUCCEE'D, v.t. The first is the more analogical spelling, as in concede, recede. [L. succedo; sub and cedo, to give way, to pass.] 1. To follow in order; to take the place which another has left; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne. John Adams succeeded Gen. Washington in the presidency of the United States. Lewis XVIII of France has lately deceased, and is succeeded by his brother Charles X.2. To follow; to come after; to be subsequent or consequent. Those destructive effects succeeded the curse.3. To prosper; to make successful. Succeed my wish, and second my design. SUCCEE'D, v.i. To follow in order. Not another comfort like to this, Succeeds in unknown fate. 1. To come in the place of one that has died or quitted the place, or of that which has preceded. Day succeeds to night, and night to day. Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed. Revenge succeeds to love, and rage to grief.2. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous termination. The enemy attempted to take the fort by storm, but did not succeed. The assault was violent, but the attempt did not succeed. It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.3. To terminate with advantage; to have a good effect. Spenser endeavored imitation in the Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.4. To go under cover. Or will you to the cooler cave succeed? [Not much used.]
Succeeder
SUCCEE'DER, noun One that follows or comes in the place of another; a successor. [But the latter word is generally used.]
Succeeding
SUCCEE'DING, participle present tense Following in order; subsequent; coming after; as in all succeeding ages. He attended to the business in every succeeding stage of its progress.
1. Taking the place of another who has quitted the place, or is dead; as a son succeeding his father; an officer succeeding his predecessor.
2. Giving success; prospering.
SUCCEE'DING, noun The act or state of prospering or having success. There is a good prospect of his succeeding
Success
SUCCESS', noun [Latin successus, from succedo.]
1. The favorable or prosperous termination of any thing attempted; a termination which answers the purpose intended; properly in a good sense, but often in a bad sense.
Or teach with more success her son,
The vices of the time to shun.
Every reasonable man cannot but wish me success in this attempt.
Be not discouraged in a laudable undertaking at the ill success of the first attempt.
Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people.
2. Succession. [Not in use.]
[Note. success without an epithet, generally means a prosperous issue.]
Successful
SUCCESS'FUL, adjective Terminating in accomplishing what is wished or intended; having the desired effect; hence, in a good sense, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as a successful application of medicine; a successful experiment in chimistry or in agriculture; a successful enterprise.
1. In a bad sense; as a successful attempt to subvert the constitution.
Successfully
SUCCESS'FULLY, adverb With a favorable termination of what is attempted; prosperously; favorably.
A reformation successfully carried on--
Successfulness
SUCCESS'FULNESS, noun Prosperous conclusion; favorable event; success.
Succession
SUCCES'SION, noun [Latin successio.]
1. A following of things in order; consecution; series of things following one another, either in time or place. Thus we speak of a succession of events in chronology, a succession of kings or bishops, and a succession of words or sentences.
2. The act of succeeding or coming in the place of another; as, this happened after the succession of that prince to the throne. So we speak of the succession of heirs to the estates of their ancestors, or collateral succession
3. Lineage; an order or series of descendants.
A long succession must ensue.
4. The power or right of coming to the inheritance of ancestors. He holds the property by the title of succession
What people is so void of common sense,
To vote succession from a native prince?
Succession of crops, in agriculture, is more generally called rotation.
Successive
SUCCESS'IVE, adjective
1. Following in order or uninterrupted course, as a series of persons or things, and either in time or place; as the successive revolutions of years or ages; the successive kings of Egypt. The author holds this strain of declamation through seven successive pages or chapters.
Send the successive ills through ages down.
2. Inherited by succession; as a successive title; a successive empire. [Little used.]
Successively
SUCCESS'IVELY, adverb In a series or order, one following another. He left three sons, who all reigned successively
The whiteness at length changed successively into blue, indigo and violet.
Successiveness
SUCCESS'IVENESS, noun The state of being successive.
Successless
SUCCESS'LESS, adjective Having no success; unprosperous; unfortunate; failing to accomplish what was intended.
Successless all her soft caresses prove.
Best temper'd steel successless prov'd in field.
Successlessness
SUCCESS'LESSNESS, noun Unprosperous conclusion.
Successor
SUCCESS'OR, noun [Latin] One that succeeds or follows; one that takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; correlative to predecessor; as the successor of a deceased king; the successor of a president or governor; a man's son and successor
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so long as the corporation subsists.
Succiduous
SUCCID'UOUS, adjective [Latin succiduus; sub and cado.] Ready to fail; falling. [Little used.]
Succiferous
SUCCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin succus, juice, and fero, to bar.] Producing or conveying sap.
Succinate
SUC'CINATE, noun [from Latin succinum, amber.] A salt formed by the succinic acid and a base.
Succinated
SUC'CINATED, adjective Impregnated with the acid of amber.
Succinct
SUCCINCT', adjective ] Latin succinctus; sub and cingo, to surround.]
1. Tucked up; girded up; drawn up to permit the legs to be free.
Hib habit fit for speed succinct [Little used.]
2. Compressed into a narrow compass; short; brief; concise; as a succinct account of the proceedings of the council.
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
Succinctly
SUCCINCT'LY, adverb Briefly; concisely.
The facts were succinctly stated.
Succinctness
SUCCINCT'NESS, noun Brevity; conciseness; as the succinctness of a narration.
Succinic
SUCCIN'IC, adjective Pertaining to amber; drawn from amber; as the succinic acid.
Succinite
SUC'CINITE, noun [Latin succinum, amber.] A mineral of an amber color, considered as a variety of garnet. It frequently occurs in globular or granular masses, about the size of a pea.
Succinous
SUC'CINOUS, adjective Pertaining to amber.
Succor
SUC'COR, verb transitive [Latin succurro; sub and curro, to run.]
Literally, to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; as, to succor a besieged city; to succor prisoners.
He is able to succor them that are tempted. .
SUC'COR, noun Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress.
My father
Flying for succor to his servant Banister--
1. The person or thing that brings relief.
The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter.
The mighty succor which made glad the foe.
Succored
SUC'CORED, participle passive Assisted; relieved.
Succorer
SUC'CORER, noun He that affords relief; a helper; a deliverer.
Succorless
SUC'CORLESS, adjective Destitute of help or relief.
Succory
SUC'CORY, noun Wild endive, a plant of the genus Cichorium.
Succotash
SUC'COTASH, noun In America, a mixture of green maiz and beans boiled. The dish, as well as the name, is borrowed from the native Indians.
Succuba
SUC'CUBA
SUC'CUBUS, noun [Latin sub and cubo.] A pretended kind of demon.
Succubus
SUC'CUBUS, n. [L. sub and cubo.] A pretended kind of demon.
Succulence
SUC'CULENCE
SUC'CULENCY, noun [See Succulent.] Juiciness; as the succulence of a peach.
Succulency
SUC'CULENCY, n. [See Succulent.] Juiciness; as the succulence of a peach.
Succulent
SUC'CULENT, adjective [Latin succulentus, from succus, juice.] Full of juice; juicy. succulent plants are such as have a juicy and soft stem, as distinguished from such as are ligneous, hard and dry. Thus the grasses are succulent herbs, as are peas, beans and the like.
Succumb
SUCCUMB', verb intransitive [Latin succumbo; sub and cumbo, cubo, to lie down.]
1. To yield; to submit; as, to succumb to a foreign power.
2. To yield; to sink unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities.
Succumbing
SUCCUMB'ING, participle present tense Yielding; submitting; sinking.
Succussation
SUCCUSSA'TION, noun [Latin succusso, to shake.] A trot or trotting.
1. A shaking; succussion.
Succussion
SUCCUS'SION, noun [Latin succussio, from succusso, to shake; sub and quasso.]
1. The act of shaking; a shake.
2. In medicine, a shaking of the nervous parts by powerful stimulants.
Suceeded
SUCEE'DED, participle passive Followed in order; prospered; attended with success.
Such
SUCH, adjective
1. Of that kind; of the like kind. We never saw such a day; we have never had such a time as the present.
It has as before the thing to which it relates. Give your children such precepts as tend to make them wiser and better.
It is to be noted that the definitive adjective a, never precedes such but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as such a man; such an honor.
2. The same that. This was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.
3. The same as what has been mentioned.
That thou art happy, owe to God;
That thou continu'st such owe to thyself.
4. Referring to what has been specified. I have commanded my servant to be at such a place.
5. such and such is used in reference to a person or place of a certain kind.
The sovereign authority may enact a law, commanding such and such an action.
Suck
SUCK, verb transitive [Latin sugo.]
1. To draw with the mouth; to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast; to draw into the mouth. To suck is to exhaust the air of the mouth or of a tube; the fluid then rushes into the mouth or tube by means of the pressure of the surrounding air.
2. To draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.
3. To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants.
4. To draw or drain.
Old ocean suck'd through the porous globe.
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb.
6. To inhale.
To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.
To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.
To suck up, to draw into the mouth.
SUCK, verb intransitive To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube.
1. To draw the breast; as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking.
2. To draw in; to imbibe.
SUCK, noun The act of drawing with the mouth.
1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.
Sucked
SUCK'ED, participle passive Drawn with the mouth, or with an instrument that exhausts the air; imbibed; absorbed.
Sucker
SUCK'ER, noun He or that which draws with the mouth.
1. The embolus or piston of a pump.
2. A pipe through which any thing is drawn.
3. The shoot of a plant from the roots or lower part of the stem; so called perhaps from its drawing its nourishment from the root or stem.
4. A fish, called also remora; also, a name of the Cyclopterus or lump-fish.
5. The name of a common river fish in New England.
SUCK'ER, verb transitive To strip off shoots; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maiz.
Sucket
SUCK'ET, noun A sweetmeat for the mouth.
Sucking
SUCK'ING, participle present tense Drawing with the mouth or with an instrument; imbibing; absorbing.
Sucking-Bottle
SUCK'ING-BOTTLE, noun A bottle to be filled with milk for infants to suck instead of the pap.
Suckle
SUCK'LE, noun A teat. [Not in use.]
SUCK'LE, verb transitive To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Romulus and Remus are fabled to have been suckled by a wolf.
Suckled
SUCK'LED, participle passive Nursed at the breast.
Suckling
SUCK'LING, participle present tense Nursing at the breast.
SUCK'LING, noun A young child or animal nursed at the breast. .
1. A sort of white clover.
Suction
SUC'TION, noun The act of sucking or drawing into the mouth, as fluids.
1. The act of drawing, as fluids into a pipe or other thing.
Sudak
SU'DAK, noun A fish, a species of Perca.
Sudary
SU'DARY, noun [Latin sudarium, from sudo, to sweat.] A napkin or handkerchief. [Not in use.]
Sudation
SUDA'TION, noun [Latin sudatio.] A sweating.
Sudatory
SU'DATORY, noun [Latin sudatorium, from sudo, to sweat.]
A hot house; a sweating bath.
SU'DATORY, adjective Sweating.
Sudden
SUD'DEN, adjective [Latin subitaneus.]
1. Happening without previous notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparatives.
And sudden fear troubleth thee. .
For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them. .
2. Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate; passionate. [Not in use.]
SUD'DEN, noun An unexpected occurrence; surprise. [Not in use.]
On a sudden sooner than was expected; without the usual preparatives.
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost!
[Of a sudden is not usual, and is less elegant.]
Suddenly
SUD'DENLY, adverb In an unexpected manner; unexpectedly; hastily; without preparation.
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly .
1. Without premeditation.
Suddenness
SUD'DENNESS, noun State of being sudden; a coming or happening without previous notice. The suddenness of the event precluded preparation.
Sudorific
SUDORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sudor, sweat, and facio, to make.]sweat; exciting perspiration; as sudorific herbs.
SUDORIF'IC, noun A medicine that produces sweat or sensible perspiration.
Sudorous
SU'DOROUS, adjective [Latin sudor, sweat.] Consisting of sweat.
Suds
SUDS, noun sing. Water impregnated with soap.
To be in the suds to be in turmoil or difficulty; a familiar phrase.
Sue
SUE, verb transitive su. [Latin sequor. See Seek and Essay.]
1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. .
2. To gain by legal process.
3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry.
To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.
SUE, verb intransitive To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.
1. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat.
By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue
For counsel and redress, he sues to you.
2. To make interest for; to demand.
Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.
Sued
SU'ED, participle passive Prosecuted; sought in law.
Suet
SU'ET, noun The fat of an animal, particularly that about the kidneys; lard.
Suety
SU'ETY, adjective Consisting of suet, or resembling it; as a suety substance.
Suffer
SUF'FER, verb transitive [Latin suffero; sub, under, and fero, to bear; as we say, to undergo.]
1. To feel or bear what is painful, disagreeable or distressing, either to the body or mind; to undergo. We suffer pain of body; we suffer grief of mind. The criminal suffers punishment; the sinner suffers the pangs of conscience in this life, and is condemned to suffer the wrath of an offended God. We often suffer wrong; we suffer abuse; we suffer injustice.
2. To endure; to support; to sustain; not to sink under.
Our spirit and strength entire,
Strongly to suffer and support our pains.
3. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder. Will you suffer yourself to be insulted?
I suffer them to enter and possess.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. Lex.19.
4. To undergo; to be affected by. Substances suffer an entire change by the action of fire, or by entering into new combinations.
5. To sustain; to be affected by; as, to suffer loss or damage.
SUF'FER, verb intransitive To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient. We suffer with pain, sickness or sorrow. We suffer with anxiety. We suffer by evils past and by anticipating others to come. We suffer from fear and from disappointed hopes.
1. To undergo, as punishment.
The father was first condemned to suffer on a day appointed, and the son afterwards, the day following.
2. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. A building suffers for want of seasonable repairs. It is just that we should suffer for neglect of duty.
Public business suffers by private infirmities.
Sufferable
SUF'FERABLE, adjective That may be tolerated or permitted; allowable.
1. That may be endured or borne.
Sufferably
SUF'FERABLY, adverb Tolerably; so as to be endured.
Sufferance
SUF'FERANCE, noun The bearing of pain; endurance; pain endured; misery.
He must not only die,
But thy unkindness shall the death draw out
To ling'ring sufferance
1. Patience; moderation; a bearing with patience.
But hasty heat temp'ring with sufferance wise.
2. Toleration; permission; allowance; negative consent by not forbidding or hindering.
In process of time, sometimes by sufferance sometimes by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.
In their beginning, they are weak and wan,
But soon through sufferance grow to fearful end.
An estate at sufferance in law, is where a person comes into possession of land by lawful title, but keeps it after the title ceases, without positive leave of the owner.
Suffered
SUF'FERED, participle passive Borne; undergone; permitted; allowed.
Sufferer
SUF'FERER, noun One who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or mind; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as suffers by poverty or sickness. Men are sufferers by fire or losses at sea; they are sufferers by the ravages of an enemy; still more are they sufferers by their own vices and follies.
1. One that permits or allows.
Suffering
SUF'FERING, participle present tense Bearing; undergoing pain, inconvenience or damage; permitting; allowing.
SUF'FERING, noun The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred; as sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.
Suffice
SUFFICE, verb intransitive suffi'ze. [Latin sufficio; sub and facio.]
To be enough or sufficient; to be equal to the end proposed.
To recount Almighty works
What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?
SUFFICE, verb transitive suffi'ze. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter.
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Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. .
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1. To afford; to supply.
The pow'r appeas'd, with wind suffic'd the sail. [Not in use.]
Sufficed
SUFFICED, participle passive suffi'zed. Satisfied; adequately supplied.
Sufficiency
SUFFI'CIENCY, noun The state of being adequate to the end proposed.
His sufficiency is such, that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted.
1. Qualification for any purpose.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others.
2. Competence; adequate substance or means.
An elegant sufficiency content.
3. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
4. Ability; adequate power.
Our sufficiency is of God. .
5. Conceit; self-confidence. [See Self-sufficiency.]
Sufficient
SUFFI'CIENT, adjective [Latin sufficiens.] Enough; equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; competent; as provision sufficient for the family; water sufficient for the voyage; an army sufficient to defend the country.
My grace is sufficient for thee. .
1. Qualified; competent; possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; as a man sufficient for an office.
2. Fit; able; of competent power or ability.
Who is sufficient for these things? .
Sufficiently
SUFFI'CIENTLY, adverb To a sufficient degree; enough; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food and clothing; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
Sufficing
SUFFICING, participle present tense suffi'zing. Supplying what is needed; satisfying.
Suffisance
SUFFI'SANCE, noun Sufficiency; plenty. [Not in use.]
Suffix
SUF'FIX, noun [Latin suffixus, suffigo; sub and figo, to fix.]
A letter or syllable added or annexed to the end of a word.
SUFFIX', verb transitive To add or annex a letter or syllable to a word.
Suffixed
SUFFIX'ED, participle passive Added to the end of a word.
Suffixing
SUFFIX'ING, participle present tense Adding to the end of a word.
Sufflaminate
SUFFLAM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin sufflamen, a stop.] To stop; to impede. [Not in use.]
Sufflate
SUFFLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin sufflo; sub and flo, to blow.]
To blow up; to inflate. [Little used.]
Sufflation
SUFFLA'TION, noun [Latin sufflatio.] The act of blowing up or inflating.
Suffocate
SUF'FOCATE, verb transitive [Latin suffoco; sub and focus, or its root.]
1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration. Respiration may be stopped by the interception of air, as in hanging and strangling, or by the introduction of smoke, dust or mephitic air into the lungs. Men may be suffocated by the halter; or men may be suffocated in smoke or in carbonic acid gas, as in mines and wells.
And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate
2. To stifle; to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire or live coals.
A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage.
SUF'FOCATE, adjective Suffocated.
Suffocated
SUF'FOCATED, participle passive Choked; stifled.
Suffocating
SUF'FOCATING, participle present tense Choking; stifling.
Suffocatingly
SUF'FOCATINGLY, adverb So as to suffocate; as suffocatingly hot.
Suffocation
SUFFOCA'TION, noun The act of choking or stifling; a stopping of respiration, either by intercepting the passage of air to and from the lungs, or by inhaling smoke, dust or air that is not respirable.
1. The act of stifling, destroying or extinguishing.
Suffocative
SUF'FOCATIVE, adjective Tending or able to choke or stifle; as suffocative catarrhs.
Suffossion
SUFFOS'SION, noun [Latin suffossio; sub and fodio, to dig.]
A digging under; an undermining.
Suffragan
SUF'FRAGAN, adjective [Latin suffragans, assisting; suffragor, to vote for, to favor.] Assisting; as a suffragan bishop.
SUF'FRAGAN, noun A bishop, considered as an assistant to his metropolitan; or rather, an assistant bishop. By 26 Hen.VIII. suffragans are to be denominated from some principal place in the diocese of the prelate whom they are to assist.
Suffragant
SUF'FRAGANT, noun An assistant; a favorer; one who concurs with.
Suffragate
SUF'FRAGATE, verb transitive [Latin suffragor.] To vote with. [Not in use.]
Suffragator
SUF'FRAGATOR, noun [Latin] One who assists or favors by his vote.
Suffrage
SUF'FRAGE, noun [Latin suffragium.]
1. A vote; a voice given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust. Nothing can be more grateful to a good man than to be elevated to office by the unbiased suffrages of free enlightened citizens.
Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrages the observation made by heathen writers.
2. United voice of persons in public prayer.
3. Aid; assistance; A Latinism. [Not in use.]
Suffraginous
SUFFRAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin suffrago, the pastern or hough.]
Pertaining to the knee joint of a beast.
Suffruticous
SUFFRU'TICOUS, adjective [Latin sub and fruticosus; frutex, a shrub.]
In botany, under-shrubby, or part shrubby; permanent or woody at the base, but the yearly branches decaying; as sage, thyme, hyssop, etc.
Suffumigate
SUFFU'MIGATE, verb transitive [Latin suffumigo.] To apply fumes or smoke to the internal parts of the body, as in medicine.
Suffumigation
SUFFUMIGA'TION, noun Fumigation; the operation of smoking any thing, or rather of applying fumes to the internal parts of the body.
1. A term applied to all medicines that are received into the body in the form of fumes.
Suffumige
SUFFU'MIGE, noun A medical fume.
Suffuse
SUFFU'SE, verb transitive suffi'ze. [Latin suffusus, suffundo; sub and fundo, to pour.] To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; as eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.
Suffused
SUFFU'SED, participle passive Overspread, as with a fluid or with color.
Suffusion
SUFFU'SION, noun [Latin suffusio.]
1. The act or operation of overspreading, as with a fluid or with a color.
2. The state of being suffused or spread over.
To those that have the jaundice or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color.
3. That which is suffused or spread over.
Sug
SUG, noun [Latin sugo, to suck.] A kind or worm.
Sugar
SUGAR, noun SHUG'AR. [Latin saccharum.]
1. A well known substance manufactured chiefly from the sugar cane, arundo saccharifera; but in the United States, great quantities of this article are made from the sugar maple; and in France, a few years since, it was extensively manufactured from the beet. The saccharine liquor is concentrated by boiling, which expels the water; lime is added to neutralize the acid that is usually present; the gresser impurities rise to the surface, and are separated in the form of scum; and finally as the liquor cools, the sugar separates from the melasses in grains. The sirup or melasses is drained off, leaving the sugar in the state known in commerce by the name of raw or muscovado sugar This is farther purified by means of clay, or more extensively by bullocks' blood, which forming a coagulum, envelops the impurities. Thus clarified, it takes the names of lump, loaf, refined, etc. according to the different degrees of purification. sugar is a proximate element of the vegetable kingdom, and is found in most ripe fruits and many farinaceous roots. By fermentation, sugar is converted into alcohol, and hence forms the basis of those substances which are used for making intoxicating liquors, as melasses, grapes, apples, malt, etc.
The ultimate elements of sugar are oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. Of all vegetable principles, it is considered by Dr. Rush as the most wholesome and nutritious.
2. A chimical term; as the sugar of lead.
SUGAR, verb transitive SHUG'AR. To impregnate, season, cover, sprinkle or mix with sugar
1. To sweeten.
But flattery still in sugar'd words betrays.
SUGAR of lead, acetate of lead.
Sugar-Candy
SUGAR-CANDY, noun [sugar and candy.] Sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized, in which state it becomes transparent.
Sugar-Cane
SUG'AR-CANE, noun [sugar and cane.] The cane or plant from whose juice sugar is obtained.
Sugar-House
SUG'AR-HOUSE, noun A building in which sugar is refined.
Sugar-Loaf
SUG'AR-LOAF, noun A conical mass of refined sugar.
Sugar-Mill
SUG'AR-MILL, noun A machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane.
Sugar-Mite
SUG'AR-MITE, noun [sugar and mite.] A winged insect; lepisma.
The lepisma saccharina, is an apterous or wingless insect, covered with silvery scales.
Sugar-Plum
SUG'AR-PLUM, noun [sugar and plum.] A species of sweetmeat in small balls.
Sugary
SUG'ARY, adjective Tinctured or sweetened with sugar; sweet; tasting like sugar.
1. Fond of sugar, or of sweet things.
2. Containing sugar.
3. Like sugar.
Sugescent
SUGES'CENT, adjective [Latin sugens, sucking.] Relating to sucking.
Suggest
SUG'GEST, verb transitive [Latin suggero, suggestus; sub and gero.]
1. To hint; to intimate or mention in the first instance; as, to suggest a new mode of cultivation; to suggest a different scheme or measure; to suggest a new idea.
2. To offer to the mind or thoughts.
Some ideas are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
3. To seduce; to draw to ill by insinuation.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. [Not in use.]
4. To inform secretly.
We must suggest the people. [Not in use.]
Suggested
SUGGEST'ED, participle passive Hinted; intimated.
Suggester
SUGGEST'ER, noun One that suggests.
Suggestion
SUGGES'TION, noun A hint; a first intimation, proposal or mention. The measure was adopted at the suggestion of an eminent philosopher.
1. Presentation of an idea to the mind; as the suggestions of fancy or imagination; the suggestions of conscience.
2. Insinuation; secret notification or incitement.
3. In law, information without oath.
Suggestive
SUGGEST'IVE, adjective Containing a hint or intimation.
Suggil
SUG'GIL, verb transitive [Latin suggillo.] To defame. [Not in use.]
Suggilate
SUG'GILATE, verb transitive [Latin suggillo.] To beat black and blue. [Not in use.]
Suggilation
SUGGILA'TION, noun A black and blue mark; a blow; a bruise. [Not in use.]
Suicidal
SUICI'DAL, adjective Partaking of the crime of suicide.
Suicide
SU'ICIDE, noun [Latin suicidium; se and coedo, to slay.]
1. Self-murder; the act of designedly destroying one's own life. To constitute suicide the person must be of years of discretion and of sound mind.
2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo de se.
Suicism
SUICISM, for suicide, is not in use.
Suillage
SUIL'LAGE, noun Drain of filth.
Suing
SU'ING, participle present tense of sue. Prosecuting.
SU'ING, noun [Latin sudo.] The process of soaking through any thing. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.