a

Here's a young maid with travel oppress’d, Such

precepts as tend to make men good, singAnd faints for succour.

Sbukspeare.

ly considered, may be distributed into such as 2. The person or thing that brings help. enjoin piety towards God, or such as require the Fear nothing else but a betraying of succours good government of ourselves.

Tillotson. which reason offereth.

Wisdom.

If my song be such, Our watchful general hath discern'd from far That you will hear and credit me too much, The mighty suciour which made glad the foe.

Attentive listen.

Dryden. Dryden. Such are the cold Riphean race, and such Su'cCOURER. n. s. [from succour.

r. ] Help-
The savage Scythian.

Dryden. er; assistant ; reliever.

As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the She hath been a succourer of many.

Romans.

Divine Natire, to be so to the utmost of our

abilities is the glory of a man : such an one, who Su'CCOURLESS. adj. [from succour.]

has the publick administration, acts like the reWanting relief; void of friends or help.

presentative of his Maker.

Addison, Succourless and sad,

You love a verse, take such as I can send. Popa She with extended arms his aid implores. Thoms.

2. The same that: with as. Su'CCULENCE. I n. s. [from succulent.) This was the state of the kingdom of Tunis SU'CCULENCY.) Juiciness.

at such time as Barbarossa, with Solyman's great SUCCULENT. adj. (succulent, Fr. suc- fleet, landed in Africk.

Kolles. culentus, Latin.] Juicy ; moist. 3. Comprehended under the term preinis

These plants have a strong, dense, and succu- ed, like what has been said. lent moisture, which is not apt to exhale. Bacon.

That thou art happy, owe to God; Divine Providence has spread her table every

That thou continu'st such, owe to thyself. Milt. where, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with

To assert that God looked upon Adam's fall succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon

as a sin, and punished it as such, when, without which most beasts feed.

More.

any antecedentsin, he withdrew that actual On our account has Jove, Indulgent, to a:l lands some succulent plant

grace, upon which it was impossible for him not

to fall, highly reproaches the essential equity of Allotted, that poor helpless man might slack the Divine Nature.

Soutb. His present thirst.

Philips. No promise can oblige a prince so much, To Succu'MB. v. n. (succumbo, Latin ; Still to be good, as long to have been such. Dryd. succomber, Fr.] To yield; to sink under

4. A manner of expressing a particular any difficulty. Not in use, except

person or thing. among the Scotch.

I saw him yesterday To their wills we must succumb,

With such and such.

Shakspeare. Quocunque trabunt, 't is our doom. Hudibras. If

you repay me not on such a day, SUCCUSSA'TION. n. s. [succussio, Latin.]

In such a place, simb sum or sums as are A trot.

Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit

Be an equal pound of your flesh. Sbakspeare. They move two legs of one side together,

I have appointed my servants to such and such which is tolutation or ambling; or lift one foot

place.

1 Samuel, before, and the cross foot behind, which is suc- Scarce this word death from sorrow did proceed, cassation or trotting.

Brown,

When in rush'd one, and tells him such a knight They rode, but authors do not say

Is new arriv'd.

Daniel, Whether tolutation or succussation. Butler.

Himself overtook a party of the army, conSuccu'SSION. n. s. [ succussio, Latin.]

sisting of three thousand horse and foot, with a 1. The act of shaking.

train of artillery, which he left at such a place,

within three hours march of Berwick. Clarend. 2. [In physick.] Is such a shaking of the

That which doth constitute any thing in its dervous parts as is procured by strong being, and distinguish it from all other things, is stimuli, like sternutatories, friction, and called the form or essence of such a thing. the like, which are commonly used in

Wilkins, apoplectick affections.

The same sovereign authority may enact a When any of that risible species were brought

law, commanding such or such an action to-day, to the doctor, and when he considered the spasms

and a quite contrary law forbidding the same to

South. of the diaphragm, and all the muscles of respiration, with the tremulous succussion of the whole

Those artists who propose only the imitation human body, he gave such patients over.

of such or such a particular person, without elecMart. Scriblerus.

tion of those ideas before mentioned, have been Such. pronoun. (sull.iks, Gothick ; sulk,

reproached for that omission.

Dryden. Dutch; spilc, Saxon.]

To SUCK. v. a. [rucan, Sax. sugo, suc1. Of that kind; of the like kind. With t'm, Lat. succer, Fr.]

as before the thing to which it relates, 1. To draw by making a rarefaction of when the thing follows: as, such a powe

the air. er as a king's; such a gift as a kingdom. 2. To draw in with the mouth. 'T is such another fitchew! marry, a perfuin'd

The cup of astonishment thou shalt drink, and Stakspeare. suck it out.

Ezekiel, Can we find such a one as this, in whom the

We'll hand in hand to the dark mansions go, spirit of God is?

Genesis. Where, sucking in each other's latest breath, The works of the flesh are manifest; such are We may transtuse our souls.

Dryden. drunkenness, revelings, and such like. Galatians.

Still she drew You will not make this a general rule to de- ,,

The sweets from ev'ry flow'r, and suck'd the bar suih from vreaching of the gospel, as have

dew.

Dryden. through intirmity fallon.

H'bitzift.

Transtix'd as o'er Castalia's streams he hung, Such another idol was Manah, worshipped be

He suck'd new poisons with his triple tongue. tween Mecca and Medina, which was called a

Pope. ruck or stone.

Stilling peet. 3. To draw the teat of a female.

norrow.

one.

nie;

Desire, the more he suck'd, more sought the 3. A round piece of leather, laid wet on a breast,

stone, and drawn up in the middle, rari. Like dropsy folk still drink to be a-thirst.

fies the air within, which pressing upon

Sidney A bitch will nurse young foxes in place of her its edges, holds it down to the stone. puppies, if you can get them once to suck her so One of the round leathers therewith boys Jong that her milk may go through them. Locke. plav, cailed suckers, uot, above an inch and na's

Did a child suck every day a new nurse, it would dinmeter, being well soaked in water, will stick be no more affrighted with the change of faces and pluck a si one of weive pounds up from the at six months old than at sixty. Locke. ground.

Greto. 4. To draw with ihe milk.

4. A pipe il:rough which any thing is Thy valiantness was mine, thou susk'dst it from sucked.

Mariners aye ply the pump, But own thy pride thyself. Sbakspeare. So they, but chiceriui, unfatigu'd, still move s. To empty by sucking.

The draining sucker.

Pbilipa. A fox lay with whole swarms of flies sueking 5. A young twig shooting from the stock. and galling of him.

L'Estrange. This word was perhaps originally surcle. Bees on tops of lilies feed,

(rews, Latin] And creep within their belis to suck the balmy seed.

Dryden.

The cat:ing away of suckers at the root and

body doch make trees grow high. . B.100n. 6. To draw or drain.

Out of this oid root à sucker may spring, that I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a wea

with little shelter and good seasons may prove zel sucks eggs.

Sbakspeare.
Pumping hath tir'd our men;

a mighty tree.

Roy, Seas into seas thrown, we suck in again. Donne. SU'CKET. ». s. (fron suck.) A sweet.

A cubical vessel of brass is filled an inch and a meat, to be dissolved in the mouth. half in half an hour; but because it sucks up ro- Nature's confectioner, the bee, ching as the earth doth, take an inch for half an Whose suckets are inoist alchimy; hour's rain.

Burnet. The still of his refining gold,
All the under passions,

Minting the garden into gold. Cleaveland
As waters are by whirlpools suck'd and drawn,
Were quite devour'd in the vast gulph of empire.

SU'CKINGBOTTLE.n.s. (suck and bottle.]

Dryden. A bottle which to children supplies the Old Ocean, suck'd through the porous globe,

want of a pap. Had long ere now forsook his horrid bed.

He that will say, children join these general

Tbomson. abstract speculations with their sucking battles, TO SUCK. V. n.

has more zeal for his opinion, but less sincerity 1. To draw by rarefying the air.

Leche Continual repairs, the least defects in sucking To SU'CKLE. v. a. [from suck.] To nurse pumps are constantly requiring. Mortimer. at the breast. 2. To draw the breast.

The breast of Hecuba, Such as are nourished with milk find the paps,

When she did sickle Hector, look'd not lovelier. and suck at thein; whereas none of those that

Sbakspears are not designed for that nourishment ever offer She nurses me up and suckles me. L'Estrange. to suck.

Ray. Two thriving calves she suckles twice a-day. I would

Drydes. Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, The Roman soldiers bare on their helmets the To win thec, lady.

Sbakspeare.

first history of Romulus, who was begot by the A nursing father beareth with the sucking god of war, and suckied by a wolf. child.

Numbers.

SU'CKLING. n. s. [from suck.) A young 3. To draw ; to imbibe.

creature yet fed by the pap. The crowo had sucked too hard, and now, be

I provide a suckling, ing full, was like to draw less.

Bacon.

That nc'er had nourishment but from the teat. SUCK. n. s. (trom the verb.)

Dryden. 1. The act of sucking.

Young animals participate of the nature of I hoped, from the descent of the quicksilver in their tender aliment, as sucklings of milk. the tube, upon the tirst suck, that I should be

Arbutbrot, able to give a nearer guess at the proportion of Su'CTION. n. s. [from suck ; succion, Fr.) force betwixt the pressure of the air and the gra

The act of sucking. vity of quicksiver.

Boyle.

Suunds exteriour and interiour may be made 2. Milk given by females.

by suciion, as by emission of the breath. B.Wek. They draw with their suck the disposition of

Though the valve were not above an inch and

Spenser. a half in dianieter, yet the weight kept up by I have given suek, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

suction, or supported by the air, and what was cast out of it, weighed ten pounds.

Bavite Sbakspeare. Cornelius regulated the suction of his chil!. Those first unpolish'd matrons

Arhabenet. Gave suck to infants of gigantick mold. Dryden. SUDA”TION. n. si (sudo, Lat.) Sweat. It would be inconvenient for birds to give

SU'DATORY. suck.

Ray.

?. s. [sudo, Lat.] llotSU'CKER. n. s. (suceur, Fr. from suck.]

house; sweating-bath. 1. Any thing that draws.

ȘU'D DEN. adj. [soudain, Fr. soden, Sax.) 2. The embolus of a pump,

1. Happening without previous notice ; Oil must be poured into the cylinder, that coming without the common preparathe sucker may slip up and down in it more tives; coming unexpectedly: smoothly.

Boyle. We have not yet sct down this day of triumph; The ascent of waters is hy suckers or forcers, To-morrox, ia my judgment, is too sedier. or sore thing equiva'eut thereunto. Wilkins.

şbakaratas

Addison

nurses.

came.

petition.

There was never any thing so sudilon, but Cæ- SU'DOROUS, adj. [from sudor, Lat.] Con. sar's thrasonical brag of I came, saw, and over- sisting of sweat. Not used.

Sbakspeare.
Herbs sudden flower'd,

Beside the strigments and sudorous adhesions Opening their various colours.

from men's hands, nothing proceedeth from gold Milton. in the usual decoction thereof.

Brown, His death may be sudden to him, though it comes by never so slow degrees. Duty of ivian,

Subs. n. s. [from seoden, to seeth; 2. Hasty ; violent; rash ; passionate; pre

whence sodben, Saxon.] cipitate. Not in use.

1. A lixivium of soap and water. grant him

2. To be in the Suds. A familiar phrase Sudden, malicious, smacking of ev'ry sin. Sbaksp. for being in any difficulty. SU'DDEN. n. S.

To SUE. v. a. (suiver, French.] 1. Any unexpected occurrence ; surprise. 1. To prosecute by law, Not in use.

If any sue thee at the law, and take away thy Parents should mark the witty excuses of their coat, let him have thy cloak also. Mattberen children at suddains and surprisals, rather than 2. To gain by legal procedure. pamper them.

Wotton. 3, (In falconry.) To clean the beak, as a 2. On or of a SUDDEN. Sooner than was hawk.

expected; without the natural or com- To Sue, v. n. To beg; to entreat ; to monly accustomed preparatives. Following the flyers at the very heels,

Full little knowest thou that hast not try'd, With them he enters, who upon tbe sudden What hell it is in sving long to bide. Spenser. Clapt to their gates.

Sbakspeare. If me thou deign to serve and sue, How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost! At thy command, lo! all these mountains be. Milton.

Spenser. They keep their patients so warm as almost to

When maidens sue, stifle them, and all on a sudden the cold regimen Men give like gods.

Sbakspears is in vogue.

Baker. We were not born to sue, but to commaid. When you have a mind to leave your master,

Svakspeare. grow rude and saucy of a sudden, and beyond Ambassadors came unto him as far as the your usual behaviour.

Swift. mouth of the Euphrates, suing unto him for SU'DDENLY. adv. (from sudden.)

peace.

Knulias, Į. In an unexpected manner; without pre

For this, this only favour let me sue, paration; hastily.

Refuse it not : but let my body have You shall find three of your Argosies

The last retreat of human kind, a grave. Dryd. Are richly come to harbour suddenly. Sbaksp.

Despise not then, that in our hands bear we If elision of the air made the sound, the touch

These holy boughs, and sue with words of pray’r. of the bell or string could not extinguish so sud

Dryden.

'T will never be too late, denly that motion.

Bacon, To the pale foes they suddenly draw near,

To sue for chains, and own a conqueror. Addis. And summon them to unexpected fight. Dryd,

The fair Egyptian She struck the warlike spear into the ground,

Courted with freedom now the beauteous slave, Which sprouting leaves did suddenly enclose,

Now falt'ring sued, and threat'ning now did

Blackmore. And peaceful olives shaded as they rose. Dryd.

By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue 2. Without premeditation.

For counsel and redress, he sues to you. Pope. If thou canst accuse,

TO SUE. v. a. Do it without invention suddenly.

To obtain by entreaty : Sbakspeare.

with out. SU'DDENNESS. n. s. [from sudden.] State

The expression is perhaps of being sudden; unexpected presence;

improper.

Nor was our blessed Saviour only our propimanner of coming or happening unex

tiation to die for us, but he is still our advocate, pectedly.

continually interceding with his father in the All in the open hall amazed stood,

behalf of all true penitents, and suing out a par. At suddenness of that unwary sight,

don for them in the court of heaven. Calamy. And wond'red at his breathless hasty mood.

Spenser. SUET. ». s. [suet, an old French word, He speedily run forward, counting his sudden- according to Skinner.) A hard fat, parness his most advantage, that he might overtake ticularly that about the kidneys. the English.

Spenser. The steatoma being suet, yields not to escaroThe rage of people is like that of the sea, ticks.

Wiseman. which, once breaking bounds, overflows a coun- SU'ETY. adj. [from suet. ] Consisting of try with that suddenness and violence as leaves no hopes of Aying.

Temple.

suet ; resembling suet.

If the matter forming a wen resembles fat or SUDORIFICK. adj. [sudorifique, Fr.sudor a suety substance, it is called steatoma.

Sbarp. and facio, Lat.] Provoking or causing TO SUFFER. v. a. [suffero, Lat. souffrir, sweat.

French. ] Physicians may well provoke sweat in bed by bottles, with a decoction of sudorifick herbs in

1. To bear; to undergo; to feel with

Bacon. sense of pain. Exhaling the most liquid parts of the blood by

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment. sudorifick or watery evaporations, brings it into a

Proverbs. morbid state.

Arbuthnot. A woman suffered many things of physicians, SUDORI'FICK. n. s.

and spent all she had.

Mark. A medicine provok- Shall we then live thus vile, the race of heav'n ing sweat.

Thus trampled, thus expellid to suffer here As to sudcrificks, consider that the liquid Chains and these torments! Better these thras which goes off by sweat is often the most sub

worse, tile part of the blood.

Arbuibnot. By my advice; since fate inevitable

rave.

hot water.

an e.

Subdues us, and onnipotent decree,

He tbought t' have slain her in his fierce de The victor's will. To suffer, as to do,

spight; Our strength is equal, nor the law unjust

But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise, That só ordains. Milton, He staid his hand.

Spenser. Obedience impos'd,

He hath giren excellent sufferance and vigor. On penalty of death, and suffering death. Milt. ousness to the sufferers, arming them with 2. To endure; to support; not to sinik strange courage.

Taylor. under.

Nor was his france of other kinds less täOur spirit and strength entire

emplary than that he cvidcuced in the reception of calumny.

Foll. Strongly to suffer and support our pains. Milt.

And should I touch it nearly, bear it 3. To allow; to permit; not to hinder. He wonder'd that your lordship

l'in all the si7"runce of a tender friend. Otway. Would sugjer him to spend his youth at home.

3. Toleration; permission ; not hinder

Shukspeare. Oft have I seen a hoto'erweening cur

In process of time, some hiles by suffrance, Run back and bite, because he was withheld: ani somewhi'es by special leave and favour, they Who being suffered, with the bear's feil paw

erected to themselves oratories not in any sumpHath clape his tail betwixt his legs and ciy'd.

tuous or stately manner.

Hooker.
Stakspeare.

Most wretched man,
My duty cannot suffer

That to affections does the bridle lend;
T' obey in all your daughter's hard commands. in their beginning they are weak and wan,

Sbakspeare. But soon thro' suferance grow to fearful end. Rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon

Spenser. him.

Leviticus.

Some villains of my court I suffer them to enter and possess. Milton.

Are in consent and sufförance in this. Sbaksp. He that will suffer himself to be informed by Both gloried to have 'scap'd the Stygian food, observation, will find few signs of a soul accus- As gods, and by their own recover'd strength; tomed to much thinking in a new-born child. Not by the sutj”rance of supernal pow't. lit.

Locke. SUFFERER.n. s. [from sufir.) 4. To pass through; to be affected by; to 1. One who endures or undergoes pain or be acted upon.

inconvenience. The air now must suffer change. Milton. This evil on the Philistines is fail'n, TO SU'FFER. V. n.

The sufferers then will scarce molest us here:

From other hands we need not much to fear. 1. To undergo pain or inconvenience.

Milton. My breast I arın to overcome by sufiring: He, when his love was bounded in a few,

Milton.

That were unhappy that they might be true, Prudence and good breeding are in all stations Made you the fav'rite of his last sad times, necessary; and most young men suffer in the That is, a suff'rer in his subjects crimes. Dryd. want of them.

Locke.

She returns to me with joy in ber face, not 2. To undergo punishment.

froin the sight of her husband, but from the The father was first condemned to suffer upon good luck she bas had at cards; and if she has a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day been a loser, I am doubly a sufferer by it: she followin:

Clarendon. comes home out of humour, because she has been He thus throwing away my estate.

Addis. Was forc'd to suffer for himself and us!

The history of civil wars and rebellions does Heir to his father's sorro vs with his crown. not make such deep and lasting impressions, as

Dryden. events of the same nature in which we er cur 3. To be injured.

friends base been sufferers.

dis28. Publick business.fers by private infirmities,

Often these unhappy sufferers expire for want and kingdonis fall into weaknesses by the dis

of sutieint vigour and spirit to carry on the eases or decay's of those thai nianage them.

aninai regimen.

Blackmore. Temple. 2. One wro allows; one who permits. SU'FFERABIE. od:. [from supr.] To. SUFFERING. 1. s. [from suffer.] Pain Terable ; such as may be endured.

siffred. Thir ses be

Rejoice in my sufferings for you. Colossians. Now no more suljer bie.

Chapman. With what strength, what sreadiness of mind, It is suffiratie in any to use what liberty they He triumphs in the midst of all his stijorings! list in their own writing, but the contracting and

snn. extending the lines and sense of others would ap- We may hope the suferings of innocent ftopear a thankless office.

Wattwil. ple, who have lied in unat place which was the SU'FFERABLY, odz. [from sufferable.]

scene of rebellion, will secure from the like attempts.

dition. Tolerably ; so as to be encurtdi.

it increased the smart of his present stjerings An infant Titan held she in her arms;

to compare them with his former happiness, Yet siffrably bright, the eye might bear

Atterbury. The ungrown glories of his beainy hair. Addison.

Then it is that the reasonableness of God's SU'FFERANCE. n. s. [from szfer; souff. providence, in relicion to the sufferings of goed rance, French.)

men in this world, will be fully justified. W. 1998. I. Pain; inconvenience ; misery.

TO SUFFICE. v. n. [suffire, Fr. sufficio, He must not only die,

Lat.] To be enough; to be sufficient; But thy unkindness shail the death draw out to be cqual to the end or pirpose. To ling'ring suffer.ince.

Sh.Isptare. If thou ask me why, suficzib, my reas ris are How much education may reconcile young good.

Statsptare people to pain and sudjeranić, the examples of Torerunt almighty work Sparta sew.

Lorie,

What words or tra! it seraph can see, 2. Patiece; moderation,

Orbeart of man par to comprehend? MI???

urn

The indo ency we have, suficing for our pre- Suficient unto the day is the evil thereof. sent happiness, we desire not to venture the

Mattbere. change; being content; and that is enough.

Heaven yet retains
Locke.

Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton. He lived in such temperance, as was enough Man is not sufficient of himself to his own hapto make the longest life agreeable; and in such a piness.

Tillotson. course of piety, as sufficed to make the most sud- It is sufficient for me, if, by a discourse someden death so also.

Pope. thing out of the way, I shall have given occasion T, SUFFICE. V. a.

to others to cast about for new discoveries. 1. To afford ; to supply.

Locke. Astrong and succulent moisture is able, with

She would ruin me in silks, were not the out drawing help from the earth, to suffice the

quantity that goes to a large pincushion sufficient sprouting of the plant.

Bacon.

to make her a gown and petticoat. Addison. Thou king of horned foods, whose plenteous

Sufficient benefice is what is competent to main

tain a man and his family, and maintain hospitaSoffices fatness to the fruitful corn,

lity; and likewise to pay and satisfy such dues Snail share my morning song and evening vows.

belonging to the bishop.

Ayliffe. Dryder.

Seven months are a sufficient time to correct The pow'r appeas'd, with winds si:fjic'd the

vice in a Yahoo.

Swift. sail;

2. Qualified for any thing by fortune or The beilying canvas strutted with the gale. otherwise.

Dryden. In saying he is a good man, understand me, 2. To satisfy ; to be equal to want or de- that he is sufficient.

Sbakspeare mand.

SUFFICIENTLY, adv. [from sufficient.] Israel, let it suffice you of all your abomina- To a sufficient degree; enough. tions.

Esckici. If religion did possess sincerely and sufficiently Parched corn she did eat, and was sufficed, and the hearts of all men, there would need be no left. Ruth. other restraint from evil.

Hooker. Let it suffice thee that thou: know'st us happy. Seem I to thee sufficiently possess'd Milton, Of happiness?

Milton, He our conqueror left us this our strength, All to whom they are proposed, are by his That we may so sritice his yengeful ire. Milton. grace sufficiently moved to attend and assent to When the herd sific'd, uid late repair

them; sufficiently, but not irresistibly: for if all To ferny heaths, and to the forest lare. Dryden. were irresistibly moved, all would embrace them; SUFFICIENCY. n. s. [suffisance, Fr. from and if none were suficiently moved, none would sufficient. ?

embrace them.

Rogers. 1. State of being adequate to the end pro

In a few days, or hours, if I am to leave this

carcase to be buried in the earth, and to find posed. T is all men's office to speak patience

myself either for ever happy in the favour of To those that wring under the load of sorrow;

God, or eternally separated from all light and But no man's virtue nor sufficiency

peace; can any words sufficiently express the littleness of every thing else?

Low. To be so moral, when he shall endure The like hiniself.

Sbakspeare.

SUFFISANCE n. s. [French.] Excess ; His sufficiency is such, that he bestows and pos

plenty. Obsolete. seseos, his plenty being unexhausted. Bozle.

There him rests in riotous suffisance This he did with that readiness and suficiency,

Of all gladfulness and kingly joyance. Spenses. as at once gave te timony to his ability, and to TO SUFFOCATE. v. a. [suffoquer, Fr.

the evidence of the truth he asserted. Feil. 2. Qualification for any purpose.

suffoco, Lat.] To choak by exclusion or Tām not so confident of my own sef lency, as

interception of air. not willingly to admit the counsel of others.

Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free,
King Charles.

And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shaks. The bishop, perhaps an Irishman, being made

This chaos, when degree is suffocate,

Tollows the choaking. judge, by that law, of the sufficiency of the mi

Sbakspeare. Insiers, may dislike the Engliunan as unworthy.

Air but momentally remains in our bodies, Spenser.

only to refrigerate the heart; which being once Their pensioner De Wit was a minister of the

performed, lest, being self-heated again, it should greatest authority and sufficiency ever known in

suffocate that part, it hasteth back the same way Temple. it passed.

Brown. 3. Competence; enough.

A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage.

Collier. An elegant sufficiency, content.

Tbomson.

All involv'd in smoke, the latent foe 4. Supply equal to want.

From every cranny suffocated falls. Thomson. The most proper subjects of dispute are ques. cions not of the very highese importance, nor of SUFFOCATION.o.s. [sufocation, Fr. from the meanest kind; but rather the intermediute suffocate.] The act of choaking; the quescions between them: and there is a large state of being choaked.

sufficiency of them in the sciences. Waits. Diseases of stoppings and suffocations are dans. It is used by Temple for that conceit gerous.

Bacon. which makes a man think himself equal White consists in an equal mixture of all the to things above him; and is commonly

primitive colours, and black in a suffocation of ail 'compounded with self.

the rays of light.

Mushrooms are best corrected by vinegar: S:ficiency is a compound of vanity and igno

some of them being poisonous, operate by suffe

Temple. SUFFICIENT. adj. [sufisant, Tr. suffi

cation, in which the best remedy is wine or vine

gar and salt, and vomiting as soon as possible. ciens, Latin.)

Arbuthnot. 1. Equal to any end or purpose; enough; SU'FFOCATIVE. adj. [from suffocate.) competent; not deficient.

Having the power to choak.

their state.

Cheyne.

race.