AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sue: to follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.-to seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.-to proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.-to clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.-to leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.-to seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.-to prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.-to woo; to pay addresses as a lover.-to be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
suet: the fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
suffer: 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.
sufferable: able to suffer or endure; patient.-that may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
sufferance: the state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.-pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.-loss; damage; injury.-submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.-negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.-a permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
sufferer: one who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.-one who permits or allows.
suffering: of suffer-the bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.-being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
suffice: to be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.-to satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.-to furnish; to supply adequately.
sufficiency: the quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.-qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.-adequate substance or means; competence.-supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.-conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
sufficient: equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.-possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.-capable of meeting obligations; responsible.-self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.
sufficiently: to a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
suffix: 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.
sufflaminate: to retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise.-hence, to stop; to impede.
suffocate: suffocated; choked.-to choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.-to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.-to become choked, stifled, or smothered.
suffocating: of suffocate-a. & n. from suffocate, v.
suffocation: the act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
suffragan: assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.-an assistant.-a bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.
suffrage: a vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.-testimony; attestation; witness; approval.-a short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.-a prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.-aid; assistance.-the right to vote; franchise.-to vote for; to elect.
suffragist: one who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.-one who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
suffruticose: woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.
suffumigate: to apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
suffuse: to overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
suffusion: the act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.-that with which a thing is suffused.-a blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
sufi: a title or surname of the king of persia.-one of a certain order of religious men in persia.
sufism: 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.
sufragette.: a woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.
sugar: a sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. it is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. see the note below.-by extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.-compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.-in making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.-to impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.-to cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
sugared: of sugar-sweetened.-also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
sugaring: of sugar-the act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.-the act or process of making sugar.
sugarplum: a kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
sugary: resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.-fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
suggest: to introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.-to propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.-to seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.-to inform secretly.-to make suggestions; to tempt.
suggestion: the act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.-that which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.-charge; complaint; accusation.-information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.-the act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by scottish metaphysicians from hutcherson to thomas brown.
suggillation: a livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.
suicide: the act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.-one guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.-ruin of one's own interests.
suicidism: the quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering.
suilline: of or pertaining to a hog or the hog family (suidae).
suine: a mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. it is used as a substitute for butter. see butterine.
suint: a peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. it is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.
suist: one who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.
suit: the act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.-the act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.-the act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.-the attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.-that which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.-things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.-a number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.-one of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.-regular order; succession.-to fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.-to be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.-to dress; to clothe.-to please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.-to agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
suitable: capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.
suite: a retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. see suit, n., 5.-a connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. see suit, n., 6.-one of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. some composers of the present day affect the suite form.
suitor: 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.
suji: indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.
sulcated: scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.
sulciform: having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.
suleah fish: a coarse fish of india, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.
sulk: a furrow.-to be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
sulkiness: the quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.
sulks: the condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
sulky: moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.-a light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.
sullage: drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.-that which sullies or defiles.-the scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.-silt; mud deposited by water.
sullen: 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.
sully: to soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.-to become soiled or tarnished.-soil; tarnish; stain.
sulphacid: an acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. see the note under acid, n., 2.
sulphamic: of or pertaining to a sulphamide; derived from, or related to, a sulphamide; specifically, designating an amido acid derivative, nh2.so2.oh, of sulphuric acid (analogous to sulphonic acid) which is not known in the free state, but is known in its salts.
sulphamide: any one of a series of amido compounds obtained by treating sulphuryl chloride with various amines.
sulphanilic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an anilene sulphonic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.
sulphantimonic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid.
sulphantimonious: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.
sulpharsenic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenic acid) analogous to arsenic acid, and known only in its salts.
sulpharsenious: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenious acid) analogous to arsenious acid, and known only in its salts.
sulphatic: of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.
sulphato-: a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting a sulphate as an ingredient in certain double salts; as, sulphato-carbonate.
sulphauric: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of gold (aurum), known only in its salts.
sulphide: a binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.
sulphindigotic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.
sulphine: any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. in general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (ch3)3s.oh.  cf. sulphonium.
sulphinic: of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of acids regarded as acid ethereal salts of hyposulphurous acid; as, methyl sulphinic acid, ch3.so.oh, a thick unstable liquid.
sulphinide: a white or yellowish crystalline substance, c6h4.(so2.co).nh, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. it is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. it has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates).
sulphion: a hypothetical radical, so4, regarded as forming the acid or negative constituent of sulphuric acid and the sulphates in electrolytic decomposition; -- so called in accordance with the binary theory of salts.
sulphionide: a binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded; thus, sulphuric acid, h/so/, is a sulphionide.
sulpho-: a prefix (also used adjectively) designating sulphur as an ingredient in certain compounds.  cf. thio-.
sulphoarsenic: of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.
sulphocarbonate: a salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.
sulphocarbonic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, h2cso2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, h2cs3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
sulphocyanate: a salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide.
sulphocyanic: of, pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a sulphacid, hscn, analogous to cyanic acid, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.
sulphonal: a substance employed as a hypnotic, produced by the union of mercaptan and acetone.
sulphone: any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, and consisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbon radicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (ch/)/.so/.
sulphonic: pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain aromatic bases (as benzene); as, phenyl sulphonic acid, c6h5.so2.oh, a stable colorless crystalline substance.
sulphonium: a hypothetical radical, sh3, regarded as the type and nucleus of the sulphines.
sulphophosphoric: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.
sulphophosphorous: of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.
sulphostannic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, h/sns/, forming a well-known series of salts.
sulphotungstic: of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.
sulphovinic: of, pertaining to, and formerly designating, ethylsulphuric acid.
sulphur: a nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native in volcanic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. symbol s. atomic weight 32. the specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96.-any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (eurymus, / colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the eastern united states.
sulphur-bottom: a very large whalebone whale of the genus sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, s. sulfureus of the north pacific, and s. borealis of the north atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
sulphuration: the act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.
sulphurator: an apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.
sulphureous: consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.
sulphuret: a sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.
sulphureted: combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized.
sulphuric: of or pertaining to sulphur; as, a sulphuric smell.-derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the sulphurous compounds; as, sulphuric acid.
sulphuring: exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.
sulphurize: to combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing.
sulphurous: of or pertaining to sulphur.-derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds.-having the characteristic odor of sulphur dioxide, or of hydrogen sulphide, or of other sulphur compounds.
sulphury: resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.
sulphydrate: a compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, ksh), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.
sulphydric: of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
sulpician: one of an order of priests established in france in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. the order was introduced soon afterwards into canada, and in 1791 into the united states.
sultan: a ruler, or sovereign, of a mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the turks; the padishah, or grand seignior; -- officially so called.
sultana: the wife of a sultan; a sultaness.-a kind of seedless raisin produced near smyrna in asiatic turkey.
sultry: very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, libya's sultry deserts.-very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.
sum: the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.-a quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.-the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.-height; completion; utmost degree.-a problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.-to bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.-to bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.-to have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
sumach: 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.
sumatran: of or pertaining to sumatra or its inhabitants.-a native of sumatra.
sumbul: the musky root of an asiatic umbelliferous plant, ferula sumbul. it is used in medicine as a stimulant.
sumless: not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.
summary: formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.-hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.-a general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.