One who takes or admits; one who receives.

Capability of being suscitated; excitability.

To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.

The act of raising or exciting.

A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.

To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

That may be suspected.

Distrusted; doubted.

One who suspects.

Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others.

Suspicion.

Suspiciousness; cause for suspicion.

Not suspecting; having no suspicion.

To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.

In suspense.

The quality or state of being suspensible.

Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.

A suspensory.

Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

Liable to suspicion; suspicious.

Suspiciousness; suspicion.

To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.

The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.

A long, deep breath; a sigh.

Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.

One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.

One who, or that which, sustains.

The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.

Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks.

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

Sustenance.

Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.

To sustain.

The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.

Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.

Sustentation.

Sister.

See Soosoo.

Whispering.

A whispering; a soft murmur.

In the manner of a whisper.

Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.

The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

Done by stitching.

A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

The condition or occupation of a sutler.

Belonging to sutlers; engaged in the occupation of a sutler.

A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).

A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule. A collection of such aphorisms.

A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.

To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

In a sutural manner.

Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.

The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.

The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.

So.

A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.

One who swabs a floor or desk.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

The shoveler.

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

a. n. from Swaddle, v.

A swaying, irregular motion.

Having a prominent, overhanging belly.

A prominent, overhanging belly.

To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.

A swagman.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.

A swagman.

Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.

A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.

A swagman.

A servant.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

A little swain.

A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury.

The condition of a swain.

To walk proudly; to sweep along.

Swelled.

A gutter in a candle.

Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

The act of swallowing.

Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.

One who swallows; also, a glutton.

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

See Celandine. A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.

imp. of Swim.

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.

A corruption of Swan-upping.

A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping.

A swamp.

One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.

See Swainmote.

An active and clever young fellow.

Resembling a swan.

A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan.

A place where swans are bred.

Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck.

The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.

The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.

The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

Hastily.