Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 188
Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal. -- Beau. & Fl.
Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. -- Boyle.
Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker (n.) 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.
Sucker (n.) (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.
Sucker (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; 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 ({Catostomus teres), the hog sucker ({Catostomus 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.
Sucker (n.) (Zool.) The remora.
Sucker (n.) (Zool.) The lumpfish.
Sucker (n.) (Zool.) The hagfish, or myxine.
Sucker
(n.)
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Sucker (n.) 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.
Sucker (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived. [Slang, U.S.]
Sucker (n.) A nickname applied
to a native of
Sucker (n.) A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.
Sucker (n.) Any thing or person; -- usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker. [Slang]
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 (Zool.), One of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.
Suckered (imp. & p. p.) of Sucker.
Suckering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sucker.
Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Sucker (v. t.) To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone).
Sucker (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Sucker (n.) A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug].
Sucker (n.) A shoot arising from a plant's roots.
Sucker (n.) A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw).
Sucker (n.) Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws.
Sucker (n.) Hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker].
Sucker (n.) An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction.
Sucker (n.) Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps.
Sucket (v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. -- Jer. Taylor.
Suckfish (n.) (Zool.) A sucker fish.
Sucking (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 (Zool.), The remora. See Remora. -- Baird.
Sucking pump, A suction pump. See under Suction.
Sucking stomach (Zool.), The muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.
Sucking (n.) The act of sucking [syn: sucking, suck, suction].
Suckle (n.) A teat. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Suckled (imp. & p. p.) of Suckle.
Suckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suckle.
Suckle (v. t.) 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 (v. i.) To nurse; to suck. [R.]
Suckle (v.) Suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily."
Suckle (v.) Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed].
Suckler (n.) (Zool.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Suckling (n.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
Suckling (n.) A small kind of
yellow clover ({Trifolium filiforme) common in
Suckling (n.) English poet and courtier (1609-1642) [syn: Suckling, Sir John Suckling].
Suckling (n.) An infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, nurseling, suckling].
Suckling (n.) A young mammal that has not been weaned.
Suckling (n.) Feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast [syn: suckling, lactation].
Sucrate (n.) (Chem.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
Sucre
(n.) A
silver coin of
Sucrose (n.) (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. At one time the term was used by extension, for any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type; however this usage is now archaic.
Note: 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. Sucrose possesses at once the properties of an alcohol and a ketone, and also forms compounds (called sucrates) analogous to salts. Cf. Sugar.
Sucrose (n.) A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent [syn: sucrose, saccharose].
Suction (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.
Suction (n.) A force over an area produced by a pressure difference.
Suction (n.) The act of sucking [syn: sucking, suck, suction].
Suction (v.) Remove or draw away by the force of suction; "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs."
Suction (v.) Empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion."
Suctoria (n. pl.) 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.
Suctoria (n. pl.) Same as Rhizocephala.
Suctorial (a.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
Suctorial (a.) Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
Suctorian (n.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
Suctorian (n.) One of the Suctoria.
Suctorious (a.) Suctorial.
Sudamina (n. pl.) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.
Sudarium (n.) 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.
Sudary (n.) A napkin or handkerchief.
Sudation (n.) 出汗，發汗 A sweating. [Obs.]
Sudation (n.) The process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process" [syn: {perspiration}, {sweating}, {diaphoresis}, {sudation}, {hidrosis}].
Compare: Diaphoresis
Diaphoresis (n.) (Technical)【醫】發汗 Sweating, especially to an unusual degree as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug.
Sudation (n.) (Physiology) (Archaic) sweating; sweat.
Sudatoria (n. pl. ) of Sudatorium.
Sudatorium (n.) A sudatory. -- Dunglison.
Sudatorium (n.) A bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory].
Sudatory (a.) Sweating; perspiring.
Sudatories (n. pl. ) of Sudatory.
Sudatory (n.) A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities. -- Evelyn.
Sudatory (n.) A medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory].
Sudatory (n.) A bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory].
Sudden (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly. [R.]
Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered. -- Milton.
Sudden (a.) 突然的；意外的；迅速的，快的 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.
Sudden (a.) 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.
Sudden (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: Unexpected; unusual; abrupt; unlooked-for. -- Sud"den*ly, adv. -- Sud"den*ness, n.
Sudden (n.) （只用於習語）突然發生的事 An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
All of a sudden, On a sudden, Of a sudden, Sooner than was expected; without the usual preparation; suddenly.
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost! -- Milton.
He withdrew his opposition all of a sudden. -- Thackeray.
Sudden (a.) Happening without warning or in a short space of time; "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure" [ant: gradual].
Suddenly (adv.) 意外地；忽然；冷不防 Happening unexpectedly; "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side" [syn: suddenly, all of a sudden, of a sudden].
Suddenly (adv.) Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead].
Suddenly (adv.) On impulse; without premeditation; "he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment"; "he made up his mind suddenly" [syn: on the spur of the moment, suddenly].
Suddenty (n.) Suddenness; a sudden. [Scot.]
On a suddenty, on a sudden. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Sudoral (a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.
Sudoriferous (a.) (Physiol.) 發汗的 Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.
Sudoriferous glands (n.) (Anat.) 汗腺 Small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.
Compare: Sudoriferous Glands
Sudoriferous Glands (n.) 汗腺 The sudoriferous (sweat) glands are small tubular structures situated within and under the skin (in the subcutaneous tissue). They discharge sweat by tiny openings in the surface of the skin.
The sweat is a transparent colorless acidic fluid with a peculiar odor. It contains some fatty acids and mineral matter. It is also called perspiration.
Compare: Sweat gland
Sweat gland (n.) 汗腺 Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor, meaning 'sweat', [6] [7] are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland, which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. There are two main types of sweat glands that differ in their structure, function, secretory product, mechanism of excretion, anatomic distribution, and distribution across species:
Eccrine sweat glands are distributed almost all over the human body, in varying densities, with the highest density in palms and soles, then on the head, but much less on the trunk and the extremities. Its water-based secretion represents a primary form of cooling in humans. [8]
Apocrine sweat glands are mostly limited to the axillae (armpits) and perianal area in humans. [8] They are not significant for cooling in humans, but are the sole effective sweat glands in hoofed animals, such as the camels, donkeys, horses, and cattle. [9] [10] [11]
Ceruminous glands (which produce ear wax), Mammary glands (which produce milk), and ciliary glands in the eyelids are modified apocrine sweat glands. [2] [12]
Sudorific (a.) Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.
Sudorific (n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Sudorific (a.) Inducing perspiration [syn: diaphoretic, sudorific].
Sudorific (n.) A medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory].
Sudoriparous (a.) (Physiol.) Same as Sudoriferous.
Sudorous (a.) Consisting of sweat. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Sudra (n.) The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See Caste. [Written also Soorah, Soodra, and Sooder.]
Sudra (n.) A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste [syn: Shudra, Sudra].
Sudra (n.) The lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status [syn: sudra, shudra].
Suds (n. pl.) 肥皂水；【美】咖啡；啤酒 Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Sue (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
By adverse destiny constrained to sue For counsel and redress, he sues to you. -- Pope.
Caesar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. -- C. Middleton.
The Indians were defeated and sued for peace. -- Jefferson.
Sue (v. i.) (Law) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
Sue (v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover. -- Massinger.
Sue (v. i.) (Naut.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Sued (imp. & p. p.) of Sue.
Suing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sue.
Sue (v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. -- Chaucer.
I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due. -- Spenser.
Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. -- Tennyson.
Sue (v. t.) (Law) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
Sue (v. t.) (Law) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
Sue (v. t.) (Falconry) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
Sue (v. t.) (Naut.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
To sue out (Law), To petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.
Sue (n.) French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) [syn: Sue, Eugene Sue].
Sue (v.) Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: action, sue, litigate, process].
Sue, () The system language used to write an operating system for the IBM 360. It is a cross between Pascal and XPL. It allows type checked separate compilation of internal procedures using a program library.
["The System Language for Project Sue", B.L. Clark e al, SIGPLAN Notices 6(9):79-88 (Oct 1971)]. (1994-12-01)
Compare: Suant
Suant (a.) Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even. [Written also suent.] [Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.] -- Su"ant*ly, adv. [Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.]
Suent (a.) Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant. -- Thoreau.
Suently (adv.) Evenly; smoothly.
Suer (n.) One who sues; a suitor.
Suer (n.) A man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess" [syn: suitor, suer, wooer]
Suer (n.) Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right [syn: suer, petitioner].
Suet (n.) The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
Suet (n.) Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep.
Suety (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.
Suety (a.) Like or full of suet; "suety lamb chops."
Suf- () A form of the prefix Sub-.
Suffered (imp. & p. p.) of Suffer.
Suffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffer.
Suffer (v. i.) 受苦；患病 [（+from）]；受損害，受損失；變糟 [（+for / from）] ；受懲罰；被處決 [（+for）] To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
O well for him whose will is strong!
He suffers, but he will not suffer long. -- Tennyson.
Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
The father was first condemned to suffer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day following. -- Clarendon.
Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
Public business suffers by private infirmities. -- Sir W. Temple.
Suffer (v. t.) 遭受；經歷；（常用於否定句）；容許；任憑 [O2] To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains. -- Milton.
Suffer (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration. -- Shak.
Suffer (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. -- Lev. xix. 17.
I suffer them to enter and possess. -- Milton.
Syn: To permit; bear; endure; support; sustain; allow; admit; tolerate. See Permit.
Suffer (v.) Undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom" [syn: suffer, endure] [ant: enjoy].
Suffer (v.) Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" [syn: suffer, sustain, have, get].
Suffer (v.) Experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers."
Suffer (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].
Suffer (v.) Get worse; "His grades suffered."
Suffer (v.) Feel pain or be in pain [syn: suffer, hurt] [ant: be well].
Suffer (v.) Feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?" [syn: hurt, ache, suffer].
Suffer (v.) Feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering from the hot weather."
Suffer (v.) Be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much."
Suffer (v.) Undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate" [syn: suffer, meet].
Suffer (v.) Be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation" [syn: suffer, lose].
Sufferable (a.) Able to suffer or endure; patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." -- Chaucer.
Sufferable (a.) That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. --
Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
Sufferable (a.) Capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment" [syn: bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportable].
Sufferance (n.) The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.
He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. -- Shak.
Sufferance (n.) Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.
The seeming sufferances that you had borne. -- Shak.
Sufferance (n.) Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.]
A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. -- Shak.
Sufferance (n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. -- Chaucer.
But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. -- Spenser.
Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave. -- Shak.
In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end. -- Spenser.
Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. -- Hooker.
Sufferance (n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [Eng.]
Estate of sufferance (Law), The holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. -- Blackstone.
On sufferance, By mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance.
Syn: Endurance; pain; misery; inconvenience; patience; moderation; toleration; permission.
Sufferance (n.) Patient endurance especially of pain or distress.
Sufferance (n.) A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; "all people should practice toleration and live together in peace" [syn: toleration, acceptance, sufferance].
Sufferer (n.) One 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 by losses at sea.
Sufferer (n.) One who permits or allows.
Sufferer (n.) A person suffering from an illness [syn: sick person, diseased person, sufferer].
Sufferer (n.) One who suffers for the sake of principle [syn: martyr, sufferer].
Suffering (n.) The 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. "Souls in sufferings tried." -- Keble.