Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 190

Suggested (imp. & p. p.) of Suggest

Suggesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suggest

Suggest (v. t.) To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

Suggest (v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

Suggest (v. t.) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

Suggest (v. t.) To inform secretly.

Suggest (v. i.) To make suggestions; to tempt.

Suggester (n.) One who suggests.

Suggestion (n.) The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Suggestion (n.) That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

Suggestion (n.) Charge; complaint; accusation.

Suggestion (n.) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

Suggestion (n.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

Suggestive (a.) Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.

Suggestment (n.) Suggestion.

Suggestress (n.) A woman who suggests.

Suggil (v. t.) To defame.

Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue.

Suggillation (n.) A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

Suicidal (a.) Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.

Suicide (adv.) 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.

Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

Suicide (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.

Suicidical (a.) Suicidal.

Suicidism (n.) The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering.

Suicism (n.) Selfishness; egoism.

Sui generis () Of his or its own kind.

Suillage (n.) A drain or collection of filth.

Suilline (a.) Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidae).

Suine (n.) A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.

Suing (n.) The process of soaking through anything.

Suingly (adv.) In succession; afterwards.

Suint (n.) 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.

Suigothus (n. pl.) The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths.

Suist (n.) One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.

Suit (n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

Suit (n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

Suit (n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

Suit (n.) That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.

Suit (n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.

Suit (n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.

Suit (n.) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.

Suit (n.) Regular order; succession.

Suited (imp. & p. p.) of Suit

Suiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suit

Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.

Suit (v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

Suit (v. t.) To dress; to clothe.

Suit (v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Suit (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.

Suitability (n.) The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Suitable (a.) Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.

Suite (n.) A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.

Suite (n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.

Suite (n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

Suiting (n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

Suitor (n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.

Suitor (n.) Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.

Suitor (n.) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.

Suitor (n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.

Suitress (n.) A female supplicant.

Suji (n.) Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.

Sula (n.) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.

Sulcate (a.) Alt. of Sulcated

Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.

Sulcation (n.) A channel or furrow.

Sulciform (a.) Having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.

Sulci (pl. ) of Sulcus

Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.

Suleah fish () A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

Sulk (n.) A furrow.

Sulk (v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.

Sulker (n.) One who sulks.

Sulkily (adv.) In a sulky manner.

Sulkiness (n.) The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.

Sulks (n. pl.) The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.

Sulky (n.) Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.

Sulkies (pl. ) of Sulky

Sulky (a.) A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

Sull (n.) A plow.

Sullage (n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

Sullage (n.) That which sullies or defiles.

Sullage (n.) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

Sullage (n.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

Sullen (a.) Lonely; solitary; desolate.

Sullen (a.) Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

Sullen (a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

Sullen (a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

Sullen (a.) Obstinate; intractable.

Sullen (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

Sullen (n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

Sullen (n.) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.

Sullen (v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.

Sullevate (v. t.) To rouse; to excite.

Sulliage (v. t.) Foulness; filth.

Sullied (imp. & p. p.) of Sully

Sullying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sully

Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

Sully (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.

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