| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| surrow | noun | The thar. |
| sunken | of Sink, Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk. | |
| suable | adjective | Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court. |
| subact | verb t. | To reduce; to subdue. |
| subash | noun | A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar. |
| subaid | verb t. | To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly. |
| subaud | verb t. | To understand or supply in an ellipsis. |
| subdue | verb t. | To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish., To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush., To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever., To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions., To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties., To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears., To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds., To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors. |
| subito | adverb | In haste; quickly; rapidly. |
| sublet | imp. & past participle | of Sublet, To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person. |
| submit | verb t. | To let down; to lower., To put or place under., To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; — often with the reflexive pronoun., To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; — often followed by a dependent proposition as the object., To yield one’s person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender., To yield one’s opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce., To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring. |
| subnex | verb t. | To subjoin; to subnect. |
| suborn | verb t. | To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken., To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. |
| subtle | superl. | Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; — applied to persons; as, a subtle foe., Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem., Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; — said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; — said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive., Smooth and deceptive. |
| subtly | adverb | In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly., Nicely; delicately., Deceitfully; delusively. |
| suburb | noun | An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris., Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. |
| subway | noun | An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted. |
| succor | verb t. | To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city., Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress., The person or thing that brings relief. |
| succus | noun | The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use. |
| sucked | imp. & past participle | of Suck |
| sucken | noun | 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. |
| sucker | noun | One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies., A suckling; a sucking animal., The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket., A pipe through which anything is drawn., 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., 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., 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 (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., The remora., The lumpfish., The hagfish, or myxine., A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); — called also bagre., A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above., A hard drinker; a soaker., A greenhorn; one easily gulled., A nickname applied to a native of Illinois., To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize., To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly. |
| sucket | verb t. | A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. |
| suckle | noun | A teat., To give suck to; to nurse at the breast., To nurse; to suck. |
| sudary | noun | A napkin or handkerchief. |
| sudden | adjective | Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy., Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid., Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate., Suddenly; unexpectedly., An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. |
| suffer | verb t. | 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., To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under., 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., To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate., 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., To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death., To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. |
| suffix | noun | A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix., A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a., To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append. |
| sufism | 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. |
| sugary | adjective | Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet., Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate. |
| suggil | verb t. | To defame. |
| suited | imp. & past participle | of Suit |
| suitor | noun | One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant., Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover., One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc., One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like. |
| sulcus | noun | A furrow; a groove; a fissure. |
| sulker | noun | One who sulks. |
| sullen | adjective | Lonely; solitary; desolate., Gloomy; dismal; foreboding., Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious., Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose., Obstinate; intractable., Heavy; dull; sluggish., One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit., Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens., To make sullen or sluggish. |
| sultan | noun | A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; — officially so called. |
| sultry | superl. | Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya’s sultry deserts., Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. |
| summed | imp. & past participle | of Sum |
| sumach | noun | Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer., The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. |
| sumbul | noun | The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. |
| summer | verb | One who sums; one who casts up an account., A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree., The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year., To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland., To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock. |
| summit | noun | The top; the highest point., The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame., The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated. |
| summon | verb t. | To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; — often with up., To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses., To call upon to surrender, as a fort. |
| sumner | noun | A summoner. |
| sumoom | noun | See Simoom. |
| sunned | imp. & past participle | of Sun |
| sunbow | noun | A rainbow; an iris. |
| sunday | noun | The first day of the week, — consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord’s Day., Belonging to the Christian Sabbath. |
| sunder | verb t. | To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends., To part; to separate., A separation into parts; a division or severance., To expose to the sun and wind. |
| sundew | noun | Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort. |
| sundog | noun | A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos. |
| sundry | verb t. | Several; divers; more than one or two; various., Separate; diverse. |
| sunlit | adjective | Lighted by the sun. |
| sunnud | noun | A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift. |
| sunset | noun | Alt. of Sunsetting |
| supped | imp. & past participle | of Sup |
| supawn | noun | Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. |
| super- | A prefix signifying above, over, beyond, and hence often denoting in a superior position, in excess, over and above, in addition, exceedingly; as in superimpose, supersede, supernatural, superabundance., A prefix formerly much used to denote that the ingredient to the name of which it was prefixed was present in a large, or unusually large, proportion as compared with the other ingredients; as in calcium superphosphate. It has been superseded by per-, bi-, di-, acid, etc. (as peroxide, bicarbonate, disulphide, and acid sulphate), which retain the old meanings of super-, but with sharper definition. Cf. Acid, a., Bi-, Di-, and Per-. | |
| superb | adjective | Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade., Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations., Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition. |
| supine | adjective | Lying on the back, or with the face upward; — opposed to prone., Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined., Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless., A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine. |
| supper | noun | A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal., To take supper; to sup., To supply with supper. |
| supple | adjective | Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers., Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse., Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious., To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather., To make compliant, submissive, or obedient., To become soft and pliant. |
| supply | verb t. | To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; — often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition., To serve instead of; to take the place of., To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit., To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war., The act of supplying; supplial., That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want., Auxiliary troops or reenforcements., The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; — used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies., An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies., A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit., Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. |
| surbed | verb t. | To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry. |
| surbet | verb t. | Same as Surbate., Surbated; bruised. |
| surcle | noun | A little shoot; a twig; a sucker. |
| surdal | adjective | Same as Surd, a., 3. |
| surely | adverb | In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly., Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely. |
| surety | noun | The state of being sure; certainty; security., That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security., Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act., One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another’s appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail., Hence, a substitute; a hostage., Evidence; confirmation; warrant., To act as surety for. |
| surfel | verb t. | Alt. of Surfle |
| surfle | verb t. | To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur. |
| surfer | noun | The surf duck. |
| surmen | plural | of Surfman |
| surged | imp. & past participle | of Surge |
| surrey | noun | A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom. |
| surtax | noun | An additional or extra tax., To impose an additional tax on. |
| survey | verb t. | To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country., To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine., To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire., To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast., To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same., The act of surveying; a general view, as from above., A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings., The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth’s surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it. |
| suslik | noun | A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches. |
| suster | noun | Alt. of Sustre |
| sustre | noun | Sister. |
| sutile | adjective | Done by stitching. |
| sutler | noun | A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like. |
| sutras | plural | of Sutra |
| suttee | noun | A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; — so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character., The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. |
| suttle | noun | The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed., To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops. |
| suture | noun | The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam., The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching., The stitch by which the parts are united., The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic., The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume., A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib., The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent., A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell. |