Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SUGGESTIVE

SUGGEST'IVE, adjective Containing a hint or intimation.

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SUGGIL

SUG'GIL, verb transitive [Latin suggillo.] To defame. [Not in use.]

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SUGGILATE

SUG'GILATE, verb transitive [Latin suggillo.] To beat black and blue. [Not in use.]

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SUGGILATION

SUGGILA'TION, noun A black and blue mark; a blow; a bruise. [Not in use.]

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SUICIDAL

SUICI'DAL, adjective Partaking of the crime of suicide.

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SUICIDE

SU'ICIDE, noun [Latin suicidium; se and coedo, to slay.]1. Self-murder; the act of designedly destroying one's own life. To constitute suicide the person must be of years of dis...

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SUICISM

SUICISM, for suicide, is not in use.

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SUILLAGE

SUIL'LAGE, noun Drain of filth.

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SUING

SU'ING, participle present tense of sue. Prosecuting.SU'ING, noun [Latin sudo.] The process of soaking through any thing. [Not in use.]

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SUIT

SUIT, noun [Latin sequor.] See Seek. In Law Latin, secta is from the same source.] Literally, a following; and so used in the old English statutes.1. Consecution; succession; se...

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SUITABLE

SUITABLE, adjective Fitting; according with; agreeable to; proper; becoming; as ornaments suitable to one's character and station; language suitable to the subject.1. Adequate. ...

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SUITABLENESS

SUITABLENESS, noun Fitness; propriety; agreeableness; a state of being adapted or accommodated. Consider the laws, and their suitableness to our moral state.

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SUITABLY

SUITABLY, adverb Fitly; agreeably; with propriety. Let words be suitably applied.

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SUITED

SUITED, participle passive Fitted; adapted; pleased.

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SUITING

SUITING, participle present tense Fitting; according with; becoming; pleasing.

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SUITOR

SUITOR, noun One that sues or prosecutes a demand of right in law, as a plaintiff, petitioner or appellant.1. One who attends a court, whether plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, ...

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SUITRESS

SUITRESS, noun A female supplicant.

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SULCATE

SUL'CATESUL'CATED, adjective [Latin sulcus, a furrow.] In botany, furrowed; grooved; scored with deep broad channels longitudinally; as a sulcated stem.

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SULCATED

SUL'CATED, a. [L. sulcus, a furrow.] In botany, furrowed; grooved; scored with deep broad channels longitudinally; as a sulcated stem.

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SULKINESS

SUL'KINESS, noun [from sulky.] Sullenness; sourness; moroseness.

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SULKY

SUL'KY, adjective Sullen; sour; heavy; obstinate; morose.While these animals remain in their inclosures, they are sulkySUL'KY, noun A carriage for a single person.

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SULLAGE

SUL'LAGE, noun [See Sulliage.] A drain of filth, or filth collected from the street or highway.

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SULLEN

SUL'LEN, adjective [perhaps set, fixed, and allied to silent, sill, etc.]1. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor.And sullen I forsook th' imperfect fe...

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SULLENLY

SUL'LENLY, adverb Gloomily; malignantly; intractably; with moroseness.

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SULLENNESS

SUL'LENNESS, noun Ill nature with silence; silent moroseness; gloominess; malignity; intractableness.

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SULLENS

SUL'LENS, nounplural A morose temper; gloominess. [Not in use.]

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SULLIAGE

SUL'LIAGE, noun Foulness; filth. [Not in use.]