Sufism Su"fism noun A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives. [ Written also sofism .]

Sug Sug noun A kind of worm or larva. Walton.

Sugar Sug"ar noun [ Middle English sugre , French sucre (cf. Italian zucchero , Spanish azúcar ), from Arabic sukkar , assukkar , from Sanskrit çarkarā sugar, gravel; confer Persian shakar . Confer Saccharine , Sucrose .] 1. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

» The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as the white or refined , granulated , loaf or lump , and the raw brown or muscovado . In a more general sense, it includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the glucoses , or grape sugars (including glucose proper, dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses , or true sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates. See Carbohydrate . The glucoses , or grape sugars , are ketone alcohols of the formula C ₆ H ₁₂ O ₆ , and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left. They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose ) as yet produced artificially belongs to this class. The sucroses , or cane sugars , are doubled glucose anhydrides of the formula C ₁₂ H ₂₂ O ₁₁ . They are usually not fermentable as such (cf. Sucrose ), and they act on polarized light.

2. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

3. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words. [ Colloq.]

Acorn sugar . See Quercite . -- Cane sugar , sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an isomeric sugar. See Sucrose . -- Diabetes , or Diabetic , sugar (Med. Chem.) , a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. -- Fruit sugar . See under Fruit , and Fructose . -- Grape sugar , a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See Dextrose , and Glucose . -- Invert sugar . See under Invert . -- Malt sugar , a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See Maltose . - - Manna sugar , a substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See Mannite . -- Milk sugar , a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose . -- Muscle sugar , a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also heart sugar . See Inosite . -- Pine sugar . See Pinite . -- Starch sugar (Com. Chem.) , a variety of dextrose made by the action of heat and acids on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also potato sugar , corn sugar , and, inaccurately, invert sugar . See Dextrose , and Glucose . -- Sugar barek , one who refines sugar. -- Sugar beet (Botany) , a variety of beet ( Beta vulgaris ) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them. -- Sugar berry (Botany) , the hackberry. - - Sugar bird (Zoology) , any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera Cœreba , Dacnis , and allied genera belonging to the family Cœrebidæ . They are allied to the honey eaters. -- Sugar bush . See Sugar orchard . -- Sugar camp , a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made. -- Sugar candian , sugar candy. [ Obsolete] -- Sugar candy , sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar. -- Sugar cane (Botany) , a tall perennial grass ( Saccharum officinarium ), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar. -- Sugar loaf . (a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. (b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf.

Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf ?

J. Webster.

-- Sugar maple (Botany) , the rock maple ( Acer saccharinum ). See Maple . -- Sugar mill , a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed. -- Sugar mite . (Zoology) (a) A small mite ( Tyroglyphus sacchari ), often found in great numbers in unrefined sugar. (b) The lepisma. -- Sugar of lead . See Sugar , 2, above. -- Sugar of milk . See under Milk . -- Sugar orchard , a collection of maple trees selected and preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; -- called also, sometimes, sugar bush . [ U.S.] Bartlett. -- Sugar pine (Botany) , an immense coniferous tree ( Pinus Lambertiana ) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a substitute for sugar. -- Sugar squirrel (Zoology) , an Australian flying phalanger ( Belideus sciureus ), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under Phlanger . -- Sugar tongs , small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl. -- Sugar tree . (Botany) See Sugar maple , above.

Sugar Sug"ar intransitive verb In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off . [ Local, U.S.]

Sugar Sug"ar transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sugared ; present participle & verbal noun Sugaring .] 1. To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot.

2. To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.

With devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.

Shak.

Sugar-house Sug"ar-house` noun A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sugared Sug"ared adjective Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser. Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

Sugariness Sug"ar·i·ness noun The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

Sugaring Sug"ar·ing noun 1. The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

2. The act or process of making sugar.

Sugarless Sug"ar·less adjective Without sugar; free from sugar.

Sugarplum Sug"ar·plum` noun A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Sugary Sug"ar·y adjective 1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser.

2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

Sugescent Su·ges"cent adjective [ Latin sugere to suck.] Of or pertaining to sucking. [ R.] Paley.

Suggest Sug·gest" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Suggested ; present participle & verbal noun Suggesting .] [ Latin suggestus , past participle of suggerere to put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to bring. See Jest .] 1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.

Locke.

2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [ Obsolete]

Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested .

Shak.

4. To inform secretly. [ Obsolete]

Syn. -- To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.

Suggest Sug·gest" intransitive verb To make suggestions; to tempt. [ Obsolete]

And ever weaker grows through acted crime,
Or seeming-genial, venial fault,
Recurring and suggesting still.

Tennyson.

Suggester Sug·gest"er noun One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

Suggestion Sug·ges"tion noun [ French suggestion , Latin suggestio .] 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

2. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

Why do I yield to that suggestion ?

Shak.

3. Charge; complaint; accusation. [ Obsolete] "A false suggestion ." Chaucer.

4. (Law) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

5. (Physiol. & Metaph.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

Syn. -- Hint; allusion; intimation; insinuation. -- Suggestion , Hint . A hint is the briefest or most indirect mode of calling one's attention to a subject. A suggestion is a putting of something before the mind for consideration, an indirect or guarded mode of presenting argument or advice. A hint is usually something slight or covert, and may by merely negative in its character. A suggestion is ordinarily intended to furnish us with some practical assistance or direction. "He gave me a hint of my danger, and added some suggestions as to the means of avoiding it."

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Pope.

Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night
On your suggestion .

Shak.

Suggestion Sug·ges"tion noun (Hypnotism) The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

Suggestive Sug·gest"ive adjective Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly , adverb -- Sug*gest"ive*ness , noun

Suggestive medicine Sug·gest"ive med"i·cine Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

Suggestment Sug·gest"ment noun Suggestion. [ R.]

They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment .

Hare.

Suggestress Sug·gest"ress noun A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Suggil Sug"gil transitive verb [ Latin suggillare , sugillare , suggillatum , sugillatum , literally, to beat black and blue.] To defame. [ Obsolete] Abp. Parker.

Suggillate Sug"gil·late transitive verb [ See Suggil .] To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.

Suggillation Sug`gil·la"tion noun [ Latin suggillatio : confer French suggillation .] A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

Sui generis Su"i gen"e·ris [ Latin ] Of his or its own kind.

Suicidal Su"i·ci`dal adjective Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide. -- Su"i*ci`dal*ly , adverb

Suicide Su"i·cide noun [ Latin sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + caedere to slay, to kill. Confer So , adverb , Homicide .] 1. The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law) , the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de- se.

3. Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide ." V. Knox.

Suicidical Su`i·cid"i·cal adjective Suicidal. [ Obsolete]

Suicidism Su"i·ci·dism noun The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering. [ R.]

Suicism Su"i·cism noun [ Latin suus one's own.] Selfishness; egoism. [ R.] Whitlock.

Suillage Su"il·lage noun [ Old French souillage , soillage , from souiller , soiller . See Soil to stain, and confer Sullage .] A drain or collection of filth. [ Obsolete] [ Written also sulliage , and sullage .] Sir H. Wotton.

Suilline Su"il·line adjective [ Latin sus hog.] (Zoology) Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family ( Suidæ ).

Suine Su"ine noun [ Confer Suint .] A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine .

Suing Su"ing noun [ Confer French suer to sweat, Latin sudare .] The process of soaking through anything. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Suingly Su"ing·ly adverb [ See Sue to follow.] In succession; afterwards. [ Obsolete] Sir T. More.

Suint Su"int (sū"ĭnt) noun [ French] (Chemistry) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.

Suiogoths Su`i·o·goths" prop. noun plural [ Latin Suiones (a Teutonic tribe in what is now Sweeden) + English Goth .] The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths .

Suist Su"ist noun [ Latin suus belinging to himself or to one's self.] One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist. [ R.] Whitlock.

Suit Suit (sūt) noun [ Middle English suite , French suite , Old French suite , sieute , from suivre to follow, Old French sivre ; perhaps influenced by Latin secta . See Sue to follow, and confer Sect , Suite .] 1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [ Obsolete]

2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.

Spenser.

3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end.

Pope.

4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit ; a criminal suit ; a suit in chancery.

I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.

Shak.

In England the several suits , or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.

Blackstone.

5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite , and pronounced swēt.

6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite , and pronounced swēt.

7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. "Two rogues in buckram suits ." Shak.

8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.

Cowper.

9. Regular order; succession. [ Obsolete]

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

Bacon.

Out of suits , having no correspondence. [ Obsolete] Shak. -- Suit and service (Feudal Law) , the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service . Blackstone. -- Suit broker , one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court. [ Obsolete] -- Suit court (O. Eng. Law) , the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord. -- Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law) , a covenant to sue at a certain court. -- Suit custom (Law) , a service which is owed from time immemorial. -- Suit service . (Feudal Law) See Suit and service , above. -- To bring suit . (Law) (a) To bring secta , followers or witnesses, to prove the plaintiff's demand. [ Obsolete] (b) In modern usage, to institute an action. -- To follow suit . (Card Playing) See under Follow , transitive verb

Suit Suit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Suited ; present participle & verbal noun Suiting .] 1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak.

2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

Dryden.

Raise her notes to that sublime degree
Which suits song of piety and thee.

Prior.

3. To dress; to clothe. [ Obsolete]

So went he suited to his watery tomb.

Shak.

4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Suit Suit intransitive verb To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to .

The place itself was suiting to his care.

Dryden.

Give me not an office
That suits with me so ill.

Addison.

Syn. -- To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match; answer.

Suitability Suit`a·bil"i·ty noun The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Suitable Suit"a·ble adjective Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness , noun -- Suit"a*bly , adverb

Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent.

Suite Suite noun [ French See Suit , noun ] 1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit , noun , 5.

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit , noun , 6.

Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library.

Boswell.

3. (Mus.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata , consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

Suiting Suit"ing noun Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

Suitor Suit"or noun 1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.

She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.

Shak.

2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney.

3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.

Suitress Suit"ress noun A female supplicant. Rowe.

Suji Su"ji noun [ Hind. s...fī .] Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [ Written also soojee .]

Sula Su"la noun [ New Latin , from Icelandic s...la the gannet. See Solan goose .] (Zoology) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.

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