Chapter 1663

Suc"cu*lent (?) , a. [L. succulentus , suculentus , fr. succus , sucus , juice; perhaps akin to E. suck : cf. F. succulent .] Full of juice; juicy.

Succulent plants (Bot.) , plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

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Suc"cu*lent*ly , adv. In a succulent manner.

Succulous <Xpage=1439>

Suc"cu*lous (?) , a. Succulent; juicy. [R.]

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Suc*cumb" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Succumbed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Succumbing .] [L. succumbere ; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent , Cubit .] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Suc*cum"bent (?) , a. [L. succumbens , p.pr.] Submissive; yielding. [R.]

Howell.

Succursal <Xpage=1439>

Suc*cur"sal (?) , a. [Cf. F. succursale . See Succor , n. & v. t. ] Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. [R.]

Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.

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Suc"cus (?) , n. ; pl. Succi (<?/) . (Med.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

Succus entericus (<?/) . [NL., literally, juice of the intestines.] (Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the glands of Lieberk\'81hn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful.

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Suc`cus*sa"tion (?) , n. [L. succussare to jolt, v. intens. fr. succutere , succussum , to fling up from below, to toss up; sub under + quatere to shake.] 1. A trot or trotting. [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

2. A shaking; succussion.

Succussion <Xpage=1439>

Suc*cus"sion (?) , n. [L. succussio , from succutere : cf. F. succussion . See Succussation .] The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.) , a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.

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Suc*cus"sive (?) , a. Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes .

Such <Xpage=1439>

Such (?) , a. [OE. such , sich , sech , sik , swich , swilch , swulch , swilc , swulc , AS. swelc , swilc , swylc ; akin to OFries. selik , D. zulk , OS. sulic , OHG. sulih , solih , G. solch , Icel. sl\'c6kr , OSw. salik , Sw. slik , Dan. slig , Goth. swaleiks ; originally meaning, so shaped. \'fb192. See So , Like , a. , and cf. Which .] 1. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend ; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better .

And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Chaucer.

His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. Macaulay.

&hand; The indefinite article a or an never precedes such , but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some , several , one , few , many , all , etc., precede such ; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held.

2. Having the particular quality or character specified.

That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such , owe to thyself. Milton.

3. The same that; -- with as ; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed . "[It] hath such senses as we have."

Shak.

4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. Daniel.

To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. James iv. 13.

&hand; Such is used pronominally. "He was the father of such as dwell in tents." Gen. iv. 20 . " Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained." Sir W. Scott . Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. "Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed." De Foe.

Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. Macaulay.

Such is used emphatically, without the correlative.

Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. Shak.

Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many ; as, such ten , or ten times as many.

Such and such , &or; Such or such , certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place shall be my camp." 2 Kings vi. 8 . "Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action." South . -- Such like &or; character , of the like kind.

And many other such like things ye do. Mark vii. 8.

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Su`cho*spon"dy*lous (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ a crocodile + <?/ a vertebra.] (Zo\'94l.) Having dorsal vertebr\'91 with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.

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Such"wise` (?) , adv. In a such a manner; so.

Suck <Xpage=1439>

Suck (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sucked (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking .] [OE. suken , souken , AS. s<?/can , s<?/gan ; akin to D. zuigen , G. saugen , OHG. s<?/gan , Icel. s<?/ga , sj<?/ga , Sw. suga , Dan. suge , L. sugere . Cf. Honeysuckle , Soak , Succulent , Suction .] 1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam ; an infant sucks the breast .

3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground .

4. To draw or drain.

Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson.

5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.

As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden.

To suck in , to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out , to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up , to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.

Suck <Xpage=1439>

Suck , v. i. 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.

Where the bee sucks , there suck I. Shak.

2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking .

3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.

The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less. Bacon.

Suck <Xpage=1439>

Suck , n. 1. The act of drawing with the mouth.

2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.

Shak.

3. A small draught. [Colloq.]

Massinger.

4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]

Suckanhock <Xpage=1439>

Suck"an*hock (?) , n. [Of American Indian origin.] A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan .

Suckatash <Xpage=1439>

Suck"a*tash (?) , n. See Succotash .

Bartlett.

Sucken <Xpage=1439>

Suck"en (?) , n. [See Socome , Soc .] (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

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Suck"er (?) , n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

2. A suckling; a sucking animal.

Beau. & Fl.

3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

Boyle.

4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.

5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.

6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

7. (Zo\'94l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid\'91 ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker ( Catostomus Commersoni ), the white sucker ( C. teres ), the hog sucker ( C. nigricans ), and the chub, or sweet sucker ( Erimyzon sucetta ). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish , red horse , black horse , and suckerel . (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish ( Menticirrus undulatus ) closely allied to the kingfish (a) ; -- called also bagre .

8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker , no branch. Fuller.

9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]

10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]

11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]

Carp sucker , Cherry sucker , etc. See under Carp , Cherry , etc. -- Sucker fish . See Sucking fish , under Sucking . -- Sucker rod , a pump rod. See under Pump . -- Sucker tube (Zo\'94l.) , one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot . See Spatangoid .

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Suck"er (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Suckered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering .] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize .

Sucker <Xpage=1440>

Suck"er , v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly .

Sucket <Xpage=1440>

Suck"et (?) , n. [Cf. Suck , v. t. , Succades .] A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

Jer. Taylor.

Suckfish <Xpage=1440>

Suck"fish` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A sucker fish.

Sucking <Xpage=1440>

Suck"ing , a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf .

I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray.

Sucking bottle , a feeding bottle. See under Bottle . -- Sucking fish (Zo\'94l.) , the remora. See Remora . Baird . -- Sucking pump , a suction pump. See under Suction . -- Sucking stomach (Zo\'94l.) , the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

Suckle <Xpage=1440>

Suc"kle (?) , n. A teat. [Obs.]

Sir T. Herbert.

Suckle <Xpage=1440>

Suc"kle , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Suckled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling (?) .] [Freq. of suck .] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.

Addison.

The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak.

They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor.

Suckle <Xpage=1440>

Suc"kle , v. i. To nurse; to suck. [R.]

Suckler <Xpage=1440>

Suc"kler (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

Suckling <Xpage=1440>

Suck"ling (?) , n. [OE. sokeling . See Suck , v. t. ] 1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

2. A small kind of yellow clover ( Trifolium filiforme ) common in Southern Europe.

Sucrate <Xpage=1440>

Su"crate (?) , n. (Chem.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate .

Sucre <Xpage=1440>

Su"cre (?) , n. A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.

Sucrose <Xpage=1440>

Su"crose` (?) , n. [F. sucre sugar. See Sugar .] (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose , cane sugar , etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose , maltose , etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

&hand; Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, C12H22O11 . It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar ( dextrose and levulose ), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a disaccharate <-- disaccharide-->. Sucrose possesses at once the properties of an alcohol and a ketone, and also forms compounds (called sucrates ) analogous to salts. Cf. Sugar .

Suction <Xpage=1440>

Suc"tion (?) , n. [L. sugere , suctum , to suck; cf. OF. suction . See Suck , v. t. ] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

Suction chamber , the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. -- Suction pipe , Suction valve , the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. -- Suction pump , the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust . of Pump .

Suctoria <Xpage=1440>

Suc*to"ri*a (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Suction .] (Zo\'94l.) 1. An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

2. Same as Rhizocephala .

Suctorial <Xpage=1440>

Suc*to"ri*al (?) , a. [L. sugere , suctum , to suck.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds .

2. (Zo\'94l.) Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes .

Suctorian <Xpage=1440>

Suc*to"ri*an (?) , n. 1. (Zo\'94l.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.

2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Suctoria.

Suctorious <Xpage=1440>

Suc*to"ri*ous (?) , a. Suctorial. [R.]

Sudamina <Xpage=1440>

Su*dam"i*na (?) , n. pl , sing. Sudamen (<?/) . [NL. sudamen , -inis , fr. sudare to sweat. See Sweat .] (Med.) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

Sudarium <Xpage=1440>

Su*da"ri*um (?) , n. [L., a handkerchief.] (Eccl.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. <-- = Veronica's veil. -->

Sudary <Xpage=1440>

Su"da*ry (?) , n. [L. sudarium , fr. sudare to sweat. See Sweat .] A napkin or handkerchief. [Obs. or R.]

Wyclif. R. Browning.

Sudation <Xpage=1440>

Su*da"tion (?) , n. [L. sudatio , fr. sudare to sweat: cf. F. sudation .] A sweating. [Obs.]

Sudatorium <Xpage=1440>

Su`da*to"ri*um (?) , n. ; pl. Sudatoria (#) . [L.] A sudatory.

Dunglison.

Sudatory <Xpage=1440>

Su"da*to*ry (?) , a. [L. sudatorius , fr. sudare to sweat: cf. F. sudatoire . See Sweat .] Sweating; perspiring.

Sudatory <Xpage=1440>

Su"da*to*ry , n. ; pl. Sudatories (#) . [L. sudatorium .] A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.

These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities. Evelyn.

Sudden <Xpage=1440>

Sud"den (?) , a. [OE. sodian , sodein , OF. sodain , sudain , F. soudain , L. subitaneus , fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, secretly + ire to go. See Issue , and cf. Subitaneous .] 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy. "O sudden wo!" Chaucer . "For fear of sudden death." Shak .

Sudden fear troubleth thee. Job xxii. 10.

2. Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

Never was such a sudden scholar made. Shak.

The apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye. Milton.

3. Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.]

Shak.

Syn. -- Unexpected; unusual; abrupt; unlooked-for.