Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 203

Suspensory (n.) That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss

Suspensory (n.) a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

Suspicable (v. t.) Liable to suspicion; suspicious.

Suspiciency (v. t.) Suspiciousness; suspicion.

Suspicion (n.) The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.

Suspicion (n.) Slight degree; suggestion; hint.

Suspicion (v. t.) To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.

Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Suspicious (a.) Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

Suspicious (a.) Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

Suspiral (n.) A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.

Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

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

Suspire (v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

Suspire (n.) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

Suspired (a.) Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.

Sustained (imp. & p. p.) of Sustain

Sustaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sustain

Sustain (v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

Sustain (v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

Sustain (v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

Sustain (v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

Sustain (n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

Sustainable (a.) Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

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

Sustainer (n.) One who, or that which, sustains.

Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.

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

Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

Sustenance (n.) That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.

Sustentacle (n.) Sustenance.

Sustentacular (a.) Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.

Sustentate (v. t.) To sustain.

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

Sustentation (n.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.

Sustentative (a.) Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.

Sustention (n.) Sustentation.

Susters (pl. ) of Sustre

Sustres (pl. ) of Sustre

Sustren (pl. ) of Sustre

Suster (n.) Alt. of Sustre

Sustre (n.) Sister.

Susu (n.) See Soosoo.

Susurrant (a.) Whispering.

Susurration (n.) A whispering; a soft murmur.

Susurringly (adv.) In the manner of a whisper.

Susurrous (a.) Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.

Susurrus (n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

Sutile (a.) Done by stitching.

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

Sutlership (n.) The condition or occupation of a sutler.

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

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

Sutras (pl. ) of Sutra

Sutra (n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.

Sutra (n.) A collection of such aphorisms.

Sutra (n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.

Suttee (n.) 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.

Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

Suttle (n.) The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.

Suttle (v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

Sutural (a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

Sutural (a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.

Suturally (adv.) In a sutural manner.

Suturated (a.) Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.

Suture (n.) 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.

Suture (n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.

Suture (n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.

Suture (n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.

Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.

Sutured (a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.

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

Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

Suzerainty (n.) The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.

Swa (adv.) So.

Swabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Swab

Swabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swab

Swab (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.

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

Swab (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.

Swab (n.) An epaulet.

Swab (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

Swab (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.

Swabber (v. t.) To swab.

Swabber (n.) One who swabs a floor or desk.

Swabber (n.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.

Swabber (n.) Same as Swobber, 2.

Swad (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

Swad (n.) A clown; a country bumpkin.

Swad (n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd.

Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

Swaddle (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

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