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.

Amber. A garnet of an amber color.

Succinic.

A salt of succinuric acid.

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.

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

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

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

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

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.

One who affords succor; a helper.

Destitute of succor.

A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.

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

The squeteague.

A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

Of or pertaining to succuba.

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.

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

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

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

Full of juice; juicy.

In a succulent manner.

Succulent; juicy.

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

Submissive; yielding.

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

The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

A trot or trotting.

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

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

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.

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

In a such a manner; so.

The act of drawing with the mouth.

To engage in french kissing (soul-kissing).

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

See Succotash.

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.

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

A sucker fish.

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

To nurse; to suck.

An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Suctorial.

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

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.

A napkin or handkerchief.

A sweating.

A sudatory.

A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.

An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Suddenness; a sudden.

Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.

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

Same as Sudoriferous.

Consisting of sweat.

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

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

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

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

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

Evenly; smoothly.

One who sues; a suitor.

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.

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

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.

Able to suffer or endure; patient.

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

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.

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

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

Sufficiently.

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

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

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.

Affording enough; satisfying.

Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment.

Sufficient.

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

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

Suffixion.

To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise.

To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.

The act of blowing up or inflating.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

a. n. from Suffocate, v.

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

A digging under; an undermining.

An assistant.

The office of a suffragan.

Suffragan.

To vote or vote with.

One who assists or favors by his vote.

To vote for; to elect.

A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast.

One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

The heel joint.

Sufferance.

Slightly woody at the base.

Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.

Suffruticose.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

The operation of suffumigating.

A medical fume.

To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.

One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.