SUMPTUOSITY
SUMPTUOS'ITY, noun [from sumptuous.] Expensiveness; costliness. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SUMPTUOUS
SUMP'TUOUS, adjective [Latin sumptuosus.] Costly; expensive; hence, splendid; magnificent; as a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.We are too magnificent and sumptuous ...
SUMPTUOUSLY
SUMP'TUOUSLY, adverb Expensively; splendidly; with great magnificence.
SUMPTUOUSNESS
SUMP'TUOUSNESS, noun Costliness; expensiveness.I will not fall out with those who can reconcile sumptuousness and charity.1. Splendor; magnificence.
SUN
SUN, noun1. The splendid orb or luminary which, being in or near the center of our system of worlds, gives light and heat to all the planets. The light of the sun constitutes th...
SUN-BRIGHT
SUN'-BRIGHT, adjective [sun and bright.] Bright as the sun; like the sun in brightness; as a sun-bright shield; a sun-bright chariot.How and which way I may bestow myselfTo be r...
SUN-BURNT
SUN-BURNT, adjective [sun and burnt.] Discolored by the heat or rays of the sun; tanned; darkened in hue; as a sunburnt skin.Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.1. Scorched by th...
SUN-DIAL
SUN'-DIAL, noun [sun and dial.] An instrument to show the time of day, by means of the shadow of a gnomon or style on a plate.SUN'-DRIED, adjective [sun and dry.] Dried in the r...
SUNBEAM
SUN'BEAM, noun [sun and beam.] A ray of the sun. Truth written with a sunbeam is truth made obviously plain.Gliding through the even on a sunbeamSUN'-BEAT, adjective [sun and be...
SUNCLAD
SUN'CLAD, adjective [sun and clad.] Clad in radiance or brightness.
SUNDAY
SUN'DAY, noun The christian sabbath; the first day of the week, a day consecrated to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship. It is called also the Lord's day. M...
SUNDER
SUN'DER, verb transitive1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a ...
SUNDERED
SUN'DERED, participle passive Separated; divided; parted.
SUNDERING
SUN'DERING, participle present tense Parting; separating.SUN'-DEW, noun [sun and dew.] A plant of the genus Drosera.
SUNDRY
SUN'DRY, adjective Several; divers; more than one or two. [This word, like several, is indefinite; but it usually signifies a small number, sometimes many.]I have composed sundr...
SUNFISH
SUN'FISH, noun [sun and fish.] A name of the diodon, a genus of fishes of a very singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a very deep fish amputated in the mid...
SUNFLOWER
SUN'FLOWER, noun [sun and flower.] A plant of the genus Helianthus; so called from the form and color of its flower, or from its habit of turning to the sun. The bastard sunflow...
SUNG
SUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of sing.While to his harp divine Amphion sung
SUNK
SUNK, preterit tense and participle passive of sink.Or toss'd by hope, or sunk by care.
SUNLESS
SUN'LESS, adjective [sun and less.] Destitute of the sun or its rays; shaded.
SUNLIKE
SUN'LIKE, adjective [sun and like.] Resembling the sun.
SUNNY
SUN'NY, adjective [from sun.] Like the sun; bright.1. Proceeding from the sun; as sunny beams.2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as the sun...
SUNPROOF
SUN'PROOF, adjective [sun and proof.] Impervious to the rays of the sun.
SUNRISE
SUN'RISESUN'RISING, noun [sun and rise.] The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; or more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or clo...
SUNRISING
SUN'RISING, n. [sun and rise.] The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; or more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weathe...
SUNSET
SUN'SETSUN'SETTING, noun [sun and set.] The descent of the sun below the horizon; or the time when the sun sets; evening.
SUNSETTING
SUN'SETTING, n. [sun and set.] The descent of the sun below the horizon; or the time when the sun sets; evening.