Succeedant (a.) Succeeding one another; following.
Succeeder (n.) A successor.
Succeeding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.
Succentor (n.) A subchanter.
Success (n.) Act of succeeding; succession.
Success (n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Success (n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Success (n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
Successary (n.) Succession.
Successful (a.) Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.
Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Successively (adv.) In a successive manner.
Successiveness (n.) The quality or state of being successive.
Successless (a.) Having no success.
Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.
Succiduous (a.) Ready to fall; falling.
Succiferous (a.) Producing or conveying sap.
Succinamate (n.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Succinamic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.
Succinate (n.) A salt of succinic acid.
Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
Succinct (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Succinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
Succinimide (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.
Succinite (n.) Amber.
Succinite (n.) A garnet of an amber color.
Succinous (a.) Succinic.
Succinurate (n.) A salt of succinuric acid.
Succinuric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.
Succinyl (n.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Succise (a.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.
Succision (n.) The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.
Succored (imp. & p. p.) of Succor
Succoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succor
Succor (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
Succor (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
Succor (v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.
Succorable (a.) Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.
Succorer (n.) One who affords succor; a helper.
Succorless (a.) Destitute of succor.
Succory (n.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.
Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Succoteague (n.) The squeteague.
Succubae (pl. ) of Succuba
Succuba (n.) A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.
Succubine (a.) Of or pertaining to succuba.
Succubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
Succubi (pl. ) of Succubus
Succubus (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
Succubus (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.
Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
Succulence (n.) Alt. of Succulency
Succulency (n.) The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.
Succulent (a.) Full of juice; juicy.
Succulently (adv.) In a succulent manner.
Succulous (a.) Succulent; juicy.
Succumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Succumb
Succumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succumb
Succumb (v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Succumbent (a.) Submissive; yielding.
Succursal (v. t.) Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.
Succi (pl. ) of Succus
Succus (n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.
Succussation (n.) A trot or trotting.
Succussation (n.) A shaking; succussion.
Succussion (n.) The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
Succussive (a.) Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.
Such (a.) Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.
Such (a.) Having the particular quality or character specified.
Such (a.) The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.
Such (a.) Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
Suchospondylous (a.) Having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.
Suchwise (adv.) In a such a manner; so.
Sucked (imp. & p. p.) of Suck
Sucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
Suck (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; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
Suck (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
Suck (v. t.) To draw or drain.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
Suck (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
Suck (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
Suck (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.
Suck (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
Suck (n.) A small draught.
Suck (n.) Juice; succulence.
Suckanhock (n.) A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
Suckatash (n.) See Succotash.
Sucken (n.) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
Sucker (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.