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Subzonal

Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

Succedaneous

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

Succedaneum

One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; a remedy used as a substitute for another.

Succeed

To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.

Succeeding

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.

Success

Act of succeeding; succession.

Successful

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.

Succession

The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.

Successional

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

Successionist

A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.

Successive

Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.

Successor

One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.

Succinamic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.

Succinct

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Succinic

Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.

Succinimide

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.

Succinuric

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.

Succinyl

A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.

Succise

Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

Succision

The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.

Succor

Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.

Succorable

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.

Succorer

One who affords succor; a helper.

Succory

A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.

Succotash

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

Succuba

A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

Succubous

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

Succubus

A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.

Succula

A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.

Succulency Succulence

The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.

Succumb

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Succursal

Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.

Succus

The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

Succussion

The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.

Succussive

Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

Such

Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.

Suchospondylous

Having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.

Suck

The act of drawing with the mouth.

suck face

To engage in french kissing (soul-kissing).

Suckanhock

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

Sucken

The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

Sucker

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

Sucket

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

Sucking

Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

Suckler

An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

Suckling

A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

Sucrate

A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.

Sucre

A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents (ca. 1900).

Sucrose

A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. At one time the term was used by extension, for any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type; however this usage is now archaic.

Suction

The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

Suctoria

An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

Suctorial

Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.

Suctorian

A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.

Sudamina

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

Sudarium

The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.

Sudary

A napkin or handkerchief.

Sudatory

A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.

Sudd

A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation.

Sudden

An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Sudoral

Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

Sudorific

Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.

Sudra

The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See Caste.

Suds

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

Sue

To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

Suede

Swedish glove leather, -- usually made from lambskins tanned with willow bark. Also used adjectively; as, suede gloves; blue suede shoes.

Suent

Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant.

Suer

One who sues; a suitor.

Suet

The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.

Suety

Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.

Suffer

To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.

Sufferance

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.

Sufferer

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

Suffering

Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Suffice

To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

Sufficiency

The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.

Sufficient

Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.

Sufficiently

To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

Suffisance

Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment.

Suffix

To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.

Suffixion

The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.

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