Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 189

Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Sufficed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffice

Sufficing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffice

Suffice (v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

Suffice (v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

Suffice (v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.

Sufficience (n.) Sufficiently.

Sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.

Sufficiency (n.) Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.

Sufficiency (n.) Adequate substance or means; competence.

Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

Sufficiency (n.) Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.

Sufficient (a.) Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.

Sufficient (a.) Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.

Sufficient (a.) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.

Sufficient (a.) Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.

Sufficiently (adv.) 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.

Sufficing (a.) Affording enough; satisfying.

Suffisance (n.) Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment.

Suffisant (a.) Sufficient.

Suffix (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

Suffix (n.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.

Suffixed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffix

Suffixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffix

Suffix (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.

Suffixion (n.) The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.

Suffixment (n.) Suffixion.

Sufflaminate (v. t.) 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.

Sufflaminate (v. t.) Hence, to stop; to impede.

Sufflate (v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.

Sufflation (n.) The act of blowing up or inflating.

Suffocate (a.) Suffocated; choked.

Suffocated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffocate

Suffocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffocate

Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

Suffocate (v. t.) To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

Suffocate (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

Suffocating () a. & n. from Suffocate, v.

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

Suffocative (a.) Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining.

Suffragan (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.

Suffragan (a.) An assistant.

Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.

Suffraganship (n.) The office of a suffragan.

Suffragant (a. & n.) Suffragan.

Suffragated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffragate

Suffragating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffragate

Suffragate (a.) To vote or vote with.

Suffragator (n.) One who assists or favors by his vote.

Suffrage (n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.

Suffrage (n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

Suffrage (n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.

Suffrage (n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.

Suffrage (n.) Aid; assistance.

Suffrage (n.) The right to vote; franchise.

Suffrage (v. t.) To vote for; to elect.

Sufragette. (n.) A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

Suffraginous (a.) Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast.

Suffragist (n.) One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

Suffragist (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.

Suffrago (n.) The heel joint.

Suffrance (n.) Sufferance.

Suffrutescent (a.) Slightly woody at the base.

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

Suffruticous (a.) Suffruticose.

Suffumigated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffumigate

Suffumigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffumigate

Suffumigate (v. t.) To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

Suffumigation (n.) The operation of suffumigating.

Suffumige (n.) A medical fume.

Suffused (imp. & p. p.) of Suffuse

Suffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffuse

Suffuse (v. t.) 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 (n.) The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.

Suffusion (n.) That with which a thing is suffused.

Suffusion (n.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Sufi (n.) A title or surname of the king of Persia.

Sufi (n.) One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.

Sufism (n.) 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 (n.) A kind of worm or larva.

Sugar (n.) A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

Sugar (n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

Sugar (v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.

Sugared (imp. & p. p.) of Sugar

Sugaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sugar

Sugar (v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

Sugar (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.

Sugared (a.) Sweetened.

Sugared (a.) Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sugariness (n.) The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

Sugaring (n.) The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

Sugaring (n.) The act or process of making sugar.

Sugarless (a.) Without sugar; free from sugar.

Sugarplum (n.) A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Sugary (a.) Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.

Sugary (a.) Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

Sugescent (a.) Of or pertaining to sucking.

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