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Stub
  • (n.) A log
  • (v. t.) To grub up by the roots

    Stucco
  • (n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work
  • (v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

    Stuck
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stick
  • (n.) A thrust.

    Stud
  • (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept
  • (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

    Stuffing
  • (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

    Stuffy
  • (a.) Angry and obstinate

    Stull
  • (n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish

    Stultify
  • (v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided

    Stum
  • (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines
  • (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

    Stun
  • (n.) The condition of being stunned.
  • (v. t.) To astonish

    Stupa
  • (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.

    Stupe
  • (n.) A stupid person.
  • (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

    Stupid
  • (a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity

    Stupor
  • (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility

    Sturdy
  • (n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
  • (superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force

    Sturgeon
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae

    Stutter
  • (n.) One who stutters
  • (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words

    Sty
  • (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
  • (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a sty.

    Stygian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx

    Style
  • (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

    Styliform
  • (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen

    Stylish
  • (a.) Having style or artistic quality

    Stylist
  • (n.) One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking

    Stylite
  • (n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience

    Stylobate
  • (n.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported

    Stylograph
  • (n.) A stylographic pen.

    Styloid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

    Stylopodium
  • (n.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

    Stylus
  • (n.) An instrument for writing.

    Styptic
  • (a.) Producing contraction
  • (n.) A styptic medicine.

    Styrax
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances

    Styx
  • (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead

    Suable
  • (a.) Capable of being sued

    Suasion
  • (n.) The act of persuading

    Suave
  • (a.) Sweet

    Sub
  • (n.) A subordinate

    Subacid
  • (a.) Moderately acid or sour
  • (n.) A substance moderately acid.

    Subacute
  • (a.) Moderalely acute.

    Subaerial
  • (a.) Beneath the sky

    Subalpine
  • (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line

    Subaltern
  • (a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
  • (n.) A person holding a subordinate position

    Subaqueous
  • (a.) Being under water, or beneath the surface of water

    Subarctic
  • (a.) Approximately arctic

    Subaudition
  • (n.) The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed

    Subaxillary
  • (a.) Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch

    Subcaliber
  • (a.) Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.

    Subcartilaginous
  • (a.) Partially cartilaginous.

    Subcelestial
  • (a.) Being beneath the heavens

    Subcentral
  • (a.) Nearly central

    Subclass
  • (n.) One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided

    Subclavian
  • (a.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone

    Subcommittee
  • (n.) An under committee

    Subconscious
  • (a.) Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness

    Subcontract
  • (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

    Subcontrary
  • (a.) Contrary in an inferior degree.
  • (n.) A subcontrary proposition

    Subcranial
  • (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium

    Subcutaneous
  • (a.) Situated under the skin

    Subdeacon
  • (n.) One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons

    Subdiaconate
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.
  • (n.) The office or rank of a subdeacon.

    Subdivide
  • (v. i.) To be, or to become, subdivided.
  • (v. t.) To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts

    Subdivision
  • (n.) A part of a thing made by subdividing.

    Subdominant
  • (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic

    Subduct
  • (v. t.) To subtract by arithmetical operation

    Subdue
  • (v. t.) To bring under

    Subdural
  • (a.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.

    Subeditor
  • (n.) An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.

    Suberin
  • (n.) A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.

    Suberize
  • (v. t.) To effect suberization of.

    Subfamily
  • (n.) One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided

    Subgenus
  • (n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters

    Subglacial
  • (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier

    Subgroup
  • (n.) A subdivision of a group, as of animals.

    Subindex
  • (n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol

    Subinfeudation
  • (n.) Subordinate tenancy

    Subito
  • (adv.) In haste

    Subjacent
  • (a.) Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath

    Subject
  • (a.) Exposed
  • (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
  • (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion

    Subjoin
  • (v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written

    Subjugate
  • (v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion

    Subjunctive
  • (a.) Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
  • (n.) The subjunctive mood

    Subkingdom
  • (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa

    Sublease
  • (n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person

    Sublet
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
  • (v. t.) To underlet

    Sublimate
  • (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
  • (n.) A product obtained by sublimation
  • (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state

    Sublimation
  • (n.) That which is sublimed

    Sublime
  • (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing
  • (superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc
  • (v. i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation
  • (v. t.) To dignify

    Subliminal
  • (a.) Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness

    Sublingual
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland

    Sublittoral
  • (a.) Under the shore.

    Sublunary
  • (a.) Situated beneath the moon
  • (n.) Any worldly thing.

    Subluxation
  • (n.) An incomplete or partial dislocation.

    Submarine
  • (a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea
  • (n.) A submarine boat

    Submaxillary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to submaxillary gland

    Submediant
  • (n.) The sixth tone of the scale

    Submerge
  • (v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid
  • (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water

    Submerse
  • (a.) Submersed.

    Submission
  • (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault

    Submissive
  • (a.) Inclined or ready to submit

    Submit
  • (v. i.) To be submissive or resigned
  • (v. t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others

    Submultiple
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a submultiple
  • (n.) A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it

    Subnormal
  • (n.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal

    Suborder
  • (n.) A division of an order

    Subordinary
  • (n.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary.

    Subordinate
  • (a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
  • (n.) One who stands in order or rank below another
  • (v. t.) To make subject

    Subordination
  • (n.) Place of inferior rank.

    Suborn
  • (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken

    Suboxide
  • (n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion

    Subperiosteal
  • (a.) Situated under the periosteum.

    Subpoena
  • (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • (v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena

    Subpolar
  • (a.) Situated below the poles.

    Subreption
  • (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts

    Subrogate
  • (v. t.) To put in the place of another

    Subrogation
  • (n.) The act of subrogating.

    Subscribe
  • (v. i.) To become surely
  • (v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath

    Subscript
  • (a.) Written below or underneath
  • (n.) Anything written below.

    Subsellium
  • (n.) One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges.

    Subsequent
  • (a.) Following in order of place

    Subserve
  • (v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate
  • (v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally

    Subservient
  • (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve

    Subside
  • (v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet

    Subsidiary
  • (a.) Furnishing aid
  • (n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies

    Subsidize
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy

    Subsidy
  • (n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public

    Subsist
  • (v. i.) To be
  • (v. t.) To support with provisions

    Subsoil
  • (n.) The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.
  • (v. t.) To turn up the subsoil of.

    Subspecies
  • (n.) A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties

    Substance
  • (n.) Body
  • (v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance

    Substantial
  • (a.) Belonging to substance

    Substantiate
  • (v. t.) To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence

    Substantival
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a substantive

    Substantive
  • (a.) Betokening or expressing existence
  • (n.) A noun or name
  • (v. t.) To substantivize.

    Substantivize
  • (v. t.) To convert into a substantive

    Substituent
  • (n.) Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed

    Substitute
  • (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.

    Substitution
  • (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another

    Substitutive
  • (a.) Tending to afford or furnish a substitute

    Substrate
  • (a.) Having very slight furrows.
  • (n.) A substratum.
  • (v. t.) To strew or lay under anything.

    Substratum
  • (n.) That which is laid or spread under

    Substructure
  • (n.) An under structure

    Subsume
  • (v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal

    Subsumption
  • (n.) That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.

    Subtangent
  • (n.) The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve

    Subtenant
  • (n.) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant

    Subtend
  • (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to

    Subterfuge
  • (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment

    Subtile
  • (a.) Acute

    Subtilize
  • (v. i.) To refine in argument
  • (v. t.) To make thin or fine

    Subtle
  • (superl.) Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions

    Subtorrid
  • (a.) Nearly torrid.

    Subtract
  • (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole

    Subtrahend
  • (n.) The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another.

    Subtribe
  • (n.) A division of a tribe

    Subtropical
  • (a.) Nearly tropical.

    Subumbrella
  • (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.

    Suburb
  • (n.) An outlying part of a city or town

    Subvene
  • (v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay

    Subvention
  • (n.) A government aid or bounty.
  • (v. t.) To subventionize.

    Subversion
  • (n.) The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned

    Subversive
  • (a.) Tending to subvert

    Subvert
  • (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation
  • (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation

    Subway
  • (n.) An underground way or gallery

    Succeed
  • (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
  • (v. t.) To come after

    Succentor
  • (n.) A subchanter.

    Success
  • (n.) Act of succeeding

    Succinate
  • (n.) A salt of succinic acid.

    Succinct
  • (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass

    Succinic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber

    Succor
  • (v. t.) Aid

    Succotash
  • (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

    Succubus
  • (n.) A demon or fiend

    Succulent
  • (a.) Full of juice

    Succumb
  • (v. t.) To yield

    Succus
  • (n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.

    Such
  • (a.) Certain

    Suck
  • (n.) A small draught.
  • (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
  • (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure

    Sucre
  • (n.) A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.

    Sucrose
  • (n.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc

    Suction
  • (v. t.) The act or process of sucking

    Suctorial
  • (a.) Adapted for sucking

    Sudatorium
  • (n.) A sudatory.

    Sudatory
  • (a.) Sweating
  • (n.) A bagnio

    Sudd
  • (n.) A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation.

    Sudoriferous
  • (a.) Producing, or secreting, sweat

    Sudorific
  • (a.) Causing sweat
  • (n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.

    Sudra
  • (n.) The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos.

    Suds
  • (n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

    Sue
  • (v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
  • (v. t.) To clean, as the beak

    Suede
  • (n.) Swedish glove leather

    Suet
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. i.) To be injured
  • (v. t.) To allow

    Suffice
  • (v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient
  • (v. t.) To furnish

    Sufficiency
  • (n.) Adequate substance or means

    Sufficient
  • (a.) Capable of meeting obligations

    Suffix
  • (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning
  • (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word

    Suffocate
  • (a.) Suffocated
  • (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
  • (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration

    Suffragan
  • (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan

    Suffrage
  • (n.) Aid
  • (v. t.) To vote for

    Suffragist
  • (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage

    Suffuse
  • (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture

    Sufi
  • (n.) A title or surname of the king of Persia.

    Sugar
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize
  • (v. t.) To cover with soft words

    Suggest
  • (v. i.) To make suggestions
  • (v. t.) To inform secretly.

    Suicidal
  • (a.) Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.

    Suicide
  • (adv.) One guilty of self-murder

    Suint
  • (n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters

    Suit
  • (n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose
  • (v. i.) To agree
  • (v. t.) To be fitted to

    Sulcus
  • (n.) A furrow

    Sulk
  • (n.) A furrow.
  • (v. i.) To be silently sullen

    Sullage
  • (n.) Drainage of filth

    Sullen
  • (a.) Gloomily angry and silent
  • (n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone
  • (v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.

    Sully
  • (n.) Soil
  • (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
  • (v. t.) To soil

    Sulphur
  • (n.) 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

    Sultan
  • (n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state

    Sultry
  • (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive

    Sum
  • (n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
  • (v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass

    Sumerian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language
  • (n.) A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer.

    Summarily
  • (adv.) In a summary manner.

    Summarize
  • (v. t.) To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary

    Summary
  • (a.) A general or comprehensive statement

    Summation
  • (v. t.) The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount

    Summer
  • (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses
  • (v.) One who sums
  • (v. i.) To pass the summer
  • (v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer

    Summit
  • (n.) The highest degree

    Summon
  • (v. t.) To call, bid, or cite

    Sump
  • (n.) A pond of water for salt works.

    Sun
  • (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays

    Sunbeam
  • (n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

    Sunbird
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia

    Sunbonnet
  • (n.) A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape

    Sunbow
  • (n.) A rainbow

    Sunburn
  • (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun
  • (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun

    Sunburst
  • (n.) A burst of sunlight.

    Sunday
  • (a.) Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.
  • (n.) The first day of the week

    Sunder
  • (v. i.) To part
  • (v. t.) A separation into parts

    Sundew
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects

    Sundial
  • (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate

    Sundog
  • (n.) A fragmentary rainbow

    Sundown
  • (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

    Sundries
  • (n. pl.) Many different or small things

    Sundrops
  • (n.) Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Oenothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight

    Sundry
  • (v. t.) Separate

    Sunfish
  • (n.) Any large jellyfish.

    Sunflower
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus

    Sung
  • (imp.) of Sing
  • (p. p.) of Sing

    Sunk
  • (imp.) of Sink
  • (p. p.) of Sink

    Sunless
  • (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays

    Sunlight
  • (n.) The light of the sun.

    Sunn
  • (n.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp

    Sunshade
  • (n.) An awning.

    Sunshine
  • (a.) Sunshiny
  • (n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun

    Sunstone
  • (n.) Aventurine feldspar.

    Sunstroke
  • (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body

    Sunup
  • (n.) Sunrise.

    Sunward
  • (adv.) Toward the sun.

    Sup
  • (n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth
  • (v. i.) To eat the evening meal
  • (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid

    Super
  • (n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

    Supinator
  • (n.) A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

    Supine
  • (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun
  • (n.) A verbal noun

    Supper
  • (n.) A meal taken at the close of the day
  • (v. i.) To take supper
  • (v. t.) To supply with supper.

    Supplant
  • (n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

    Supple
  • (a.) Bending to the humor of others
  • (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
  • (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

    Suppliant
  • (a.) Asking earnestly and submissively
  • (n.) One who supplicates

    Supplicant
  • (a.) Entreating
  • (n.) One who supplicates

    Supplication
  • (n.) A humble petition

    Supply
  • (a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything
  • (n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures
  • (v. t.) To fill temporarily

    Support
  • (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like
  • (v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant

    Supposable
  • (a.) Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist

    Suppose
  • (n.) Supposition.
  • (v. i.) To make supposition
  • (v. t.) To imagine

    Supposition
  • (n.) That which is supposed

    Supposititious
  • (a.) Fraudulently substituted for something else

    Suppositive
  • (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis
  • (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.

    Suppository
  • (n.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum

    Suppress
  • (v. t.) To keep in

    Suppurate
  • (v. i.) To generate pus
  • (v. t.) To cause to generate pus

    Supra
  • (adv.) Over

    Supremacy
  • (n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power

    Supreme
  • (a.) Highest

    Sura
  • (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.

    Surbase
  • (n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs

    Surcease
  • (n.) Cessation
  • (v. i.) To cease.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease

    Surcharge
  • (n.) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
  • (v. t.) To overload

    Surcingle
  • (n.) A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast

    Surcoat
  • (n.) A coat worn over the other garments

    Surd
  • (a.) Involving surds
  • (n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers

    Sure
  • (adv.) In a sure manner
  • (superl.) Betrothed

    Surf
  • (n.) The bottom of a drain.

    Surge
  • (n.) A large wave or billow
  • (v. i.) To slip along a windlass.

    Surgical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery

    Surly
  • (a.) Arrogant

    Surmise
  • (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence
  • (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge

    Surmount
  • (v. i.) To conquer

    Surmullet
  • (a.) Any one of various species of mullets of the family Millidae, esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish

    Surname
  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name

    Surpass
  • (v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad

    Surplice
  • (n.) A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations

    Surplus
  • (a.) Being or constituting a surplus
  • (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government

    Surprise
  • (n.) A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.

    Surrejoinder
  • (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

    Surrender
  • (n.) The act of surrendering
  • (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another
  • (v. t.) To give up possession of

    Surreptitious
  • (a.) Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority

    Surrey
  • (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom

    Surrogate
  • (n.) A deputy
  • (v. t.) To put in the place of another

    Surround
  • (n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc
  • (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat

    Surtax
  • (n.) An additional or extra tax.
  • (v. t.) To impose an additional tax on.

    Surveillance
  • (n.) Oversight

    Survey
  • (n.) A particular view
  • (v. t.) To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry

    Survival
  • (n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event

    Survive
  • (v. i.) To remain alive
  • (v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of


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