SUSPENSIBILITY
SUSPENSIBIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being suspended or sustained from sinking; as the suspensibility of indurated clay in water.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SUSPENSIBLE
SUSPENS'IBLE, adjective Capable of being suspended or held from sinking.
SUSPENSION
SUSPEN'SION, noun [Latin suspensio. See Suspend.]1. The act of hanging up, or of causing to hang by being attached to something above.2. The act of making to depend on any thing...
SUSPENSIVE
SUSPENS'IVE, adjective Doubtful.
SUSPENSOR
SUSPENS'OR, noun In anatomy, a bandage to suspend the scrotum.
SUSPENSORY
SUSPENS'ORY, adjective That suspends; suspending; as a suspensory muscle.SUSPENS'ORY, noun That which suspends or holds up; a truss.
SUSPICABLE
SUS'PICABLE, adjective [Latin suspicor.] That may be suspected; liable to suspicion. [Not in use.]
SUSPICION
SUSPI'CION, noun [Latin suspicio. See Suspect.] The act of suspecting; the imagination of the existence of something without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evid...
SUSPICIOUS
SUSPI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin suspiciosus.] Inclined to suspect; apt to imagine without proof.Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious and no man can ...
SUSPICIOUSLY
SUSPI'CIOUSLY, adverb With suspicion.1. So as to excite suspicion.
SUSPICIOUSNESS
SUSPI'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being liable to suspicion, or liable to be suspected; as the suspiciousness of a man's appearance, of his weapons or of his actions.1. The q...
SUSPIRAL
SUSPI'RAL, noun [Latin suspiro, to breathe; sub and spiro.]1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.2. A spring of water passing under ground towards a cistern or conduit. [Local.]
SUSPIRATION
SUSPIRA'TION, noun [Latin suspiratio, suspiro, to sigh; sub and spiro, to breathe.] The act of sighing or fetching along and deep breath; a sigh.
SUSPIRE
SUSPI'RE, verb intransitive [supra.] To sigh; to fetch along deep breath; to breathe. [Little used.]
SUSPIRED
SUSPI'RED, participle passive or adjective Wished for; desired. [Not in use.]
SUSTAIN
SUSTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin sustineo; sub and teneo, to hold under.]1. To bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; pillars sustain an edif...
SUSTAINABLE
SUSTA'INABLE, adjective That may be sustained or maintained. The action is not sustainable
SUSTAINED
SUSTA'INED, participle passive Borne; upheld; maintained; supported; subsisted; suffered.
SUSTAINER
SUSTA'INER, noun He or that which sustains, upholds or suffers.
SUSTAINING
SUSTA'INING, participle present tense Bearing; upholding; maintaining; suffering; subsisting.
SUSTALTIC
SUSTAL'TIC, adjective [Gr.] Mournful; affecting; an epithet given to a species of music by the Greeks.
SUSTENANCE
SUS'TENANCE, noun1. Support; maintenance; subsistence; as the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.2. That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions. This city h...
SUSTENTACLE
SUSTEN'TACLE, noun [Latin sustentaculum.] Support. [Not in use.]
SUSTENTATION
SUSTENTA'TION, noun [Latin sustentatio, sustento.]1. Support; preservation from falling.2. Use of food.3. Maintenance; support of life.
SUSURRATION
SUSURRA'TION, noun [Latin susurratio; susurro, to whisper.]A whispering; a soft murmur.
SUTILE
SU'TILE, adjective [Latin sutilis, from suo, to sew.]Done by stitching. [Not in use.]
SUTLER
SUT'LER, noun A person who follows an army and sells to the troops provisions and liquors.