Surveyor (n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Surveyorship (n.) The office of a surveyor.
Surview (v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.
Surview (n.) A survey.
Survise (v. t.) To look over; to supervise.
Survival (n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
Survival (n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.
Survivance (n.) Alt. of Survivancy
Survivancy (n.) Survivorship.
Survived (imp. & p. p.) of Survive
Surviving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survive
Survive (v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
Survive (v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.
Survivency (n.) Survivorship.
Surviver (n.) One who survives; a survivor.
Surviving (a.) Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
Survivor (n.) One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
Survivor (n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.
Survivorship (n.) The state of being a survivor.
Survivorship (n.) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other.
Susceptibilities (pl. ) of Susceptibility
Susceptibility (n.) The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
Susceptibility (n.) Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Susceptible (a.) Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Susception (n.) The act of taking; reception.
Susceptive (a.) Susceptible.
Susceptivity (n.) Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
Susceptor (n.) One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
Suscipiency (n.) Admission.
Suscipient (a.) Receiving; admitting.
Suscipient (n.) One who takes or admits; one who receives.
Suscitability (n.) Capability of being suscitated; excitability.
Suscitated (imp. & p. p.) of Suscitate
Suscitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suscitate
Suscitate (v. t.) To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.
Suscitation (n.) The act of raising or exciting.
Suslik (n.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.
Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
Suspect (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
Suspect (a.) Suspicion.
Suspect (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
Suspected (imp. & p. p.) of Suspect
Suspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspect
Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
Suspect (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
Suspect (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
Suspect (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Suspectable (a.) That may be suspected.
Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
Suspecter (n.) One who suspects.
Suspectful (a.) Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others.
Suspection (n.) Suspicion.
Suspectiousness (n.) Suspiciousness; cause for suspicion.
Suspectless (a.) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
Suspectless (a.) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
Suspended (imp. & p. p.) of Suspend
Suspending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspend
Suspend (n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
Suspend (n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
Suspend (n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
Suspend (n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
Suspend (n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Suspender (n.) One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
Suspensation (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.
Suspense (a.) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
Suspense (a.) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
Suspense (a.) The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.
Suspense (a.) Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
Suspense (a.) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
Suspensely (adv.) In suspense.
Suspensibility (n.) The quality or state of being suspensible.
Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.
Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
Suspension (n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc.
Suspension (n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
Suspension (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
Suspension (n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
Suspension (n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.
Suspensor (n.) A suspensory.
Suspensor (n.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
Suspensoria (pl. ) of Suspensorium
Suspensorium (n.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
Suspensory (a.) Suspended; hanging; depending.
Suspensory (a.) Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.
Suspensory (a.) Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.