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.

To rouse; to excite.

Foulness; filth.

Soil; tarnish; stain.

An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. See the Note under Acid, n., 2.

A salt of sulphamic acid.

Of or pertaining to a sulphamide; derived from, or related to, a sulphamide; specifically, designating an amido acid derivative, NH2.SO2.OH, of sulphuric acid (analogous to sulphonic acid) which is not known in the free state, but is known in its salts.

Any one of a series of amido compounds obtained by treating sulphuryl chloride with various amines.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anilene sulphonic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A salt of sulphantimonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.

A salt of sulphantimonious acid.

A salt of sulpharsenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenic acid) analogous to arsenic acid, and known only in its salts.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenious acid) analogous to arsenious acid, and known only in its salts.

A salt of sulpharsenious acid.

A salt of sulphuric acid.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.

A salt of sulphauric acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of gold (aurum), known only in its salts.

A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

A salt of a sulphinic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.

Any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. In general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of acids regarded as acid ethereal salts of hyposulphurous acid; as, methyl sulphinic acid, CH3.SO.OH, a thick unstable liquid.

A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates).

A hypothetical radical, SO4, regarded as forming the acid or negative constituent of sulphuric acid and the sulphates in electrolytic decomposition; -- so called in accordance with the binary theory of salts.

A binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded; thus, sulphuric acid, H2SO4, is a sulphionide.

A salt of sulphurous acid; -- called also sulfite.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.

A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.

A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a sulphacid, HSCN, analogous to cyanic acid, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.

See Sulphocyanate.

A substance employed as a hypnotic, produced by the union of mercaptan and acetone.

A salt of sulphonic acid.

Any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, and consisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbon radicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (CH/)/.SO/.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain aromatic bases (as benzene); as, phenyl sulphonic acid, C6H5.SO2.OH, a stable colorless crystalline substance.

A hypothetical radical, SH3, regarded as the type and nucleus of the sulphines.

A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.

A salt of a sulphacid.

A salt of sulphostannic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H/SnS/, forming a well-known series of salts.

A salt of sulphotungstic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.

Of, pertaining to, and formerly designating, ethylsulphuric acid.

A nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native in volcanic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. Symbol S. Atomic weight 32. The specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96.

A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, Sibbaldius sulfureus of the North Pacific, and Sibbaldius borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.

To sulphurize.

The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.

An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.

The quality or state of being sulphureous.

Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.

A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.

Combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized.

Of or pertaining to sulphur; as, a sulphuric smell.

Sulphureous.

Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.

To combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing.

Of or pertaining to sulphur.

The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.

Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.

The hypothetical radical SO2; -- called also sulphon.

A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.

A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.

Having a deep red color.

The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

A sultana.

Pertaining to a sultan.

The dominions of a sultan.

The office or dignity of a sultan.

Sultanry.

In a sultry manner.

The quality or state of being sultry.

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.

A member of the most prominent tribe of the Moro tribes, occupying the Sulu Archipelago; also, their language.

To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.

Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants. A native of Sumatra.

The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.

A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer.

Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.

In a summary manner.

One who summarized.

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.

A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.

To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.