Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
succade |
noun |
A sweetmeat., Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. |
succeed |
verb t. |
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king’s eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer., To fall heir to; to inherit., To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue., To support; to prosper; to promote., To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; — often with to., Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant., To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve., To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded., To go under cover. |
success |
noun |
Act of succeeding; succession., That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort., The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue., That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. |
succise |
adjective |
Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity. |
succory |
noun |
A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory. |
succuba |
noun |
A female demon or fiend. See Succubus. |
succubi |
plural |
of Succubus |
succula |
noun |
A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum. |
succumb |
verb t. |
To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease. |
sucking |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Suck, Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. |
suckled |
imp. & past participle |
of Suckle |
suckler |
noun |
An animal that suckles its young; a mammal. |
sucrate |
noun |
A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate. |
sucrose |
noun |
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. |
suction |
verb t. |
The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. |