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.
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A napkin or handkerchief.
A sweating.
A sudatory.
A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation.
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.
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.
A kind of worm or larva.
To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
Sweetened. Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.
Without sugar; free from sugar.
A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.
Of or pertaining to sucking.
To make suggestions; to tempt.
One who suggests.
The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.
Suggestion.
A woman who suggests.
To defame.
To beat livid, or black and blue.
A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.
Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.
The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
Suicidal.
The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering.
Selfishness; egoism.
A drain or collection of filth.
Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidae).
A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.
The process of soaking through anything.
In succession; afterwards.
A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.
The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths.
One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.
A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
A female supplicant.
Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.
A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.
Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.
A channel or furrow.
Having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.
A furrow; a groove; a fissure.
To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
One who sulks.
In a sulky manner.
The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.
A plow.
Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
To make sullen or sluggish.
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