Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
Sucker (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
Sucker (n.) The remora.
Sucker (n.) The lumpfish.
Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
Sucker (n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
Sucker (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Suckered (imp. & p. p.) of Sucker
Suckering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sucker
Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Sucker (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Sucket (v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.
Suckfish (n.) A sucker fish.
Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
Suckle (n.) A teat.
Suckled (imp. & p. p.) of Suckle
Suckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suckle
Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Suckler (n.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
Suckling (v. t.) A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.
Sucrate (n.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
Sucre (n.) A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.
Sucrose (n.) 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. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.
Suction (v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Suctoria (n. pl.) 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.
Suctoria (n. pl.) Same as Rhizocephala.
Suctorial (a.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
Suctorial (a.) Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
Suctorian (n.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
Suctorian (n.) One of the Suctoria.
Suctorious (a.) Suctorial.
Sudamina (n. pl) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.
Sudarium (n.) 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 (n.) A napkin or handkerchief.
Sudation (n.) A sweating.
Sudatoria (pl. ) of Sudatorium
Sudatorium (n.) A sudatory.
Sudatory (a.) Sweating; perspiring.
Sudatories (pl. ) of Sudatory
Sudatory (n.) A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
Sudden (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
Sudden (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Sudden (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
Sudden (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
Sudden (n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Suddenty (n.) Suddenness; a sudden.
Sudoral (a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.
Sudoriferous (a.) Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.
Sudorific (a.) Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.
Sudorific (n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Sudoriparous (a.) Same as Sudoriferous.
Sudorous (a.) Consisting of sweat.
Sudra (n.) The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See Caste.
Suds (n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Sued (imp. & p. p.) of Sue
Suing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sue
Sue (v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
Sue (v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
Sue (v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
Sue (v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
Sue (v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
Sue (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
Sue (v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
Sue (v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
Sue (v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
Suent (a.) Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant.
Suently (adv.) Evenly; smoothly.
Suer (n.) One who sues; a suitor.
Suet (n.) 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 (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.
Suf- () A form of the prefix Sub-.
Suffered (imp. & p. p.) of Suffer
Suffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffer
Suffer (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
Suffer (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
Suffer (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
Suffer (v. i.) 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.
Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
Sufferable (a.) Able to suffer or endure; patient.
Sufferable (a.) That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
Sufferance (n.) The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.
Sufferance (n.) Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.
Sufferance (n.) Loss; damage; injury.
Sufferance (n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.
Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
Sufferance (n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
Sufferer (n.) 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.
Sufferer (n.) One who permits or allows.
Suffering (n.) The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.