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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Sug'ared, p. a. p. 1323Sweetened.Sug'ar-house, n. p. 1323A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.Sug'ar-i-ness, n. p. 1323The state or quality of being sugary, or sweet.Sug'ar-ing, n. p. 1323The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used. 2. The process of making sugar.Sug'ar-less, a. p. 1323Free from sugar.Sug'ar-lōaf, n. p. 1323A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. 2. A hat shaped like a sugar-loaf. Why, do not I know you, grannam, and that sugar-loaf? J. Webster.Sug'ar-mā'ple, n. p. 1323(Bot.) A species of maple (the Acer saccharinum), from whose sap sugar is made by boiling; rock-maple; — called also sugar-tree.Sug'ar-mill, n. p. 1323A machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar-cane, usually consisting of two or more rollers, between which the cane is passed.Sugar-mite, n. p. 1323(Entom.) An apterous or wingless insect, covered with silvery scales; Lepisma saccharina. Ed. Encyc.Sug'ar-ôr'chard, n. p. 1323A collection of maple-trees selected and preserved for the purpose of obtaining sugar from them;—called also, sometimes, sugar-bush. [U. S.] Bartlett.Sug'ar-plūm, n. p. 1323A species of candy made up in small, flattened balls or disks.Sug'ar-tree, n. p. 1323See SUGAR-MAPLE.Sug'ar-y, a. p. 1323Resembling or containing sugar; sweet. 2. Fond of sugar, or of sweet things.Su-gĕs'cent, a. p. 1323Of, or relating to, sucking. [Rare.] Paley.Sug-gĕst', v. t. p. 1323To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of by the agency of other objects. Some ideas are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To…Sug-gĕst', v. t. p. 1323To seduce; to tempt. And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. Tennyson.Sug-gĕst'er, n. p. 1323One who suggests.Sug-gĕs'tion, n. p. 1323The act of suggesting. 2. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a diffident proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement. Why do I yield to that suggestion?…Sug-gĕst'ive, a. p. 1323Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.Sug-gĕst'ive-ly, adv. p. 1323In a suggestive manner; by way of suggestion.Sug-gĕst'ĭve-ness, n. p. 1323The state or quality of being suggestive.Sug-gĕst'ment, n. p. 1323Suggestion. [Rare.] They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.Sug-gĕst'ress, n. p. 1323A female who suggests. “The suggestress of suicides.” De Quincey.Sŭg'gĭl, v. t. p. 1323To defame. [Obs.] Parker.Sŭg'gĭl-lāte, v. t. p. 1323To beat livid, or black and blue. [Obs.] Wiseman.Sŭg'gillā'tion, n. p. 1323A livid or black and blue mark; a blow; a bruise. [Obs.]Sūi-ĭ-cīd'ăl, a. p. 1323Partaking, or in the nature of, the crime of suicide.Sū'i-çīd'al-ly, adv. p. 1323In a suicidal manner.Sū'i-cīde, n. p. 1323The act of designedly destroying one's own life, committed by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind; self-murder. Blackstone. 2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.Sū'i-cīd'ē-al, a. p. 1323Suicidal. [Obs.]