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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Sŭf'fer, v. t. p. 1322To feel or endure with pain, annoyance, and the like; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind. 2. To endure without sinking; to support; to…Sŭf'fer, v. i. p. 1322To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer with pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety. O, well for him whose will is strong: He suffers, but he…Sŭf'fer-a-ble, a. p. 1322Capable of being suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.Sŭf'fer-a-ble-ness, n. p. 1322The state or quality of being sufferable; tolerableness.Sŭf'fer-a-bly, adv. p. 1322In a sufferable manner; tolerably.Sŭf'fer-ance, n. p. 1322The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance; pain endured; misery. He must not only die, But thy unkindness shall the death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak. 2. Submission under…Sŭf'fer-er, n. p. 1322One 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 losses at sea. 2. One who permits…Sŭf'fer-ing, n. p. 1322The 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.Sŭf'fer-ing-ly, adv. p. 1322In a suffering manner; with suffering or pain.Suf-fice', v. i. p. 1322To be enough or sufficient; to be equal to the end proposed. To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? Milton.Suf-fice', v. t. p. 1322To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Deut. iii. 26. 2. To furnish; to supply. [Obs. and rare.] The power…Suf-fi'cience, n. p. 1322Sufficiency. [Obs.]Suf-fi'cien-cy, n. p. 1322The state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. Doyle. 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability…Suf-fi'cient, a. p. 1322Adequate to suffice; equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country. My grace is sufficient for thee. 2…Suf-fi'cient-ly, adv. p. 1322To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food and clothing; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his…Suf-fi'cing-ness, n. p. 1322The state or quality of sufficing, or being sufficient; sufficiency.Suf-fi’sance, n. p. 1322Sufficiency; plenty. [Obs.]Sŭf'fix, n. p. 1322A letter or syllable added or annexed to the end of a word; an affix; a postfix.Suf-fix', v. t. p. 1322To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.Suf-fix'ion, n. p. 1322The act of suffixing or appending, or the state of being suffixed or appended.Suf-flam'i-nāte, v. t. p. 1322To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by a chain or otherwise. 2. Hence, to stop; to impede. Barrow.Suf-flāte′, v. t. p. 1322To blow up; to inflate. [Rare.] Bailey.Suf-flā'tion, n. p. 1322The act of blowing up or inflating. [Rare.] Coles.Sŭf'fo-cāte, v. t. p. 1322[Lat. suffocare, suffocatum, from sub, under, and faux, faucis, pl. fauces, the throat; It. suffocare, Pg. suffocar, Sp. suffocar, Pr. suffocar, Fr. suffoquer. 1. To choke or kill by stopping…Sŭf'fo-cāte, v. i. p. 1322To become choked, stifled, or smothered. A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage. Collier.Sŭf'fo-cate, a. p. 1322Suffocated. Shak.Sŭf'fo-cā'ting-ly, adv. p. 1322In a suffocating manner; so as to suffocate; as, suffocatingly hot.Sŭf'fo-cā'tion, n. p. 1322The act of suffocating, choking, or stifling. 2. The condition of being suffocated, choked, or stifled.Sūf'fo-cā'tive, a. p. 1322Tending or able to choke or stifle. “Suffocative catarrhs.” Arbuthnot.Suf-fŏs'sion, n. p. 1322A digging under; an undermining. [Rare.] Bp. Hall.Sŭf'fra-gan, a. p. 1322Assisting: as, a suffragan bishop.Sŭf'fra-gan, n. p. 1322(Eccl.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop. He issued a commission empowering any three of his suffragans to commit, in his name and as his…Sŭf'fra-gan-shĭp, n. p. 1322The office of a suffragan.Sŭf'fra-gant, a. p. 1322Suffragan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Sŭf'fra-gant, n. p. 1322An assistant; a favorer; one who concurs with another. [Obs.]Sŭf'fra-gāte, v. i. & t. p. 1322To vote or vote with. [Obs.] Hale.Sūf'fra-gā'tor, n. p. 1322One who assists or favors by his vote. [Obs.]Sŭf'frage, n. p. 1322A voice 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. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak. 2.…Suf-frăg’ĭ-noŭs, a. p. 1322Of, or pertaining to, the hough of a beast. [Obs.] Browne.Sŭf'fra-gist, n. p. 1322One who enjoys or exercises the right of suffrage; a voter. [Rare.]Sūf'/fru-tēs'cent, a. p. 1322Moderately frutescent.Suf-fru'ti-ēose', a. p. 1322(Bot.) Somewhat shrubby, or in part shrubby; growing like an under shrub; permanent or woody at the base, but with the yearly branches decaying, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.Suf-fru'ti-cōus, a. p. 1322Suffruticose.Suf-fū'mi-gāte, v. t. p. 1322To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine.Suf-fū/mi-gā'tion, n. p. 1322The operation of smoking any thing, or rather of applying fumes to the parts of the body; fumigation.Suf-fū'mige, n. p. 1322A medical fume. [Obs.]Suf-fūsé, v. t. p. 1322To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. “When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.”…Suf-fū'ṣion, n. p. 1322The act or operation of suffusing, as with a fluid or with a color. 2. The state of being suffused, or spread over. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that…Su'fi, n. p. 1322One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. 2. A title or surname of the king of Persia.Su'fism, n. p. 1322A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who reject the Koran, and hold to a kind of pantheism. [Written also sofism.]Sūg, n. p. 1322A kind of worm. Walton.Sug'ar, n. p. 1322A sweet, crystalline substance obtained from certain vegetable products, as the sugar-cane, maple, beet, sorghum, and the like. The sugar in common domestic use is manufactured chiefly from the…Sug'ar, v. t. p. 1323To impregnate, season, cover, sprinkle, or mix with sugar. 2. To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten. We do sugar o'er the devil himself. Shak. Flattery still in…Sug'ar-bāk'er, n. p. 1323One who makes loaf-sugar.Sug'ar-beet, n. p. 1323A species of beet, from the root of which sugar is obtained, especially Beta alba; also, B. major, B. Romana, and B. sylvestris. Simmonds.Sug'ar-bĕr'ry, n. p. 1323(Bot.) A small or middle-sized tree having sweet, edible fruit, which ripens in autumn; Celtis occidentalis; — called also hackberry. Gray.Sug'ar-bush, n. p. 1323See SUGAR-ORCHARD.Sug'ar-căn'di-an, n. p. 1323The same as SUGAR-CANDY. [Obs.]Sug'ar-căn'dy, n. p. 1323Sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized.Sug'ar-cāne, n. p. 1323(Bot.) The cane or plant from whose juice sugar is obtained; Saccharum officinarum.