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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.

Sufflaminate

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.

Sufflate

To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.

Suffocate

To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

Suffocation

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

Suffragette

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

Suffragist

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

Suffruticose

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

Suffumigate

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

Suffuse

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.

Suffusion

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

Sufi

One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.

Sufism

A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives.

Sug

A kind of worm or larva.

Sugar

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

Sugar-house

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sugared

Sweetened. Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

Sugariness

The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

Sugaring

The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

Sugarplum

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Sugary

Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.

Suggest

To make suggestions; to tempt.

Suggestion

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Suggestive

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.

Suggillation

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

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