Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUL'LEN-NESS, n.

Ill nature with silence; silent moroseness; gloominess; malignity; intractableness. – Milton. Temple.

SUL'LENS, n. [plur.]

A morose temper; gloominess. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SUL'LI-AGE, n. [Fr. souillage.]

Foulness; filth. [Not in use.]

SUL'LI-ED, pp.

Soiled; tarnished; stained.

SUL'LY, n.

Soil; tarnish; spot. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies on his reputation. – Spectator.

SUL'LY, v.i.

To be soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than guiding. – Bacon.

SUL'LY, v.t. [Fr. souiller; from the root of soil, G. süle.]

1. To soil; to dirt; to spot; to tarnish. And statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. – Roscommon.
2. To tarnish; to darken. Let there be no spots to sully the brightens of this solemnity. – Atterbury.
3. To stain; to tarnish; as, the purity of reputation; as, virtues sullied by slanders; character sullied by infamous vices.

SUL'LY-ING, ppr.

Soiling; tarnishing; staining.

SUL'PHATE, n. [from sulphur.]

A salt by sulphuric acid in combination with any base; as, sulphate of lime. – Lavoisier.

SUL'PHITE, n. [from sulphur.]

A salt formed by a combination of sulphurous acid with a base. – Lavoisier.

SUL-PHO-CY-AN'IC-AC'ID, n. [SUL-PHO-CY-AN'IC AC'ID.]

A compound of sulphur, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen.

SUL-PHO-NAPH-THAL'IC-AC'ID, n. [SUL-PHO-NAPH-THAL'IC AC'ID.]

A compound of sulphuric acid and naphthaline.

SUL-PHO-VI'NIC-AC'ID, n. [SUL-PHO-VI'NIC AC'ID.]

An acid formed by the action of sulphuric acid upon alcohol.

SUL'PHUR, n. [L., whence Fr. soufre; It. zolfo; Sp. azufre; Port. enxofre; D. solfer.]

A simple mineral substance, of a yellow color, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat. It is called also brimstone, that is, burn-stone, from its great combustibility. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. Sulphur native or prismatic is of two kinds, common and volcanic. It is an acidifying and basifying principle. – Nicholson. Ure.

SUL'PHUR-ATE, a. [L. sulphuratus.]

Belonging to sulphur; of the color of sulphur. [Little used.] – More.

SUL'PHUR-ATE, v.t.

To combine with sulphur. [Obs.]

SUL'PHUR-A-TED, pp.

Combined or impregnated with sulphur; as, sulphurated hydrogen gas. [Obs.] – Lavoisier.

SUL'PHUR-A-TING, ppr.

Combining or impregnating with sulphur. [Obs.]

SUL-PHUR-A'TION, n.

Act of addressing or anointing with sulphur. – Bentley.

SUL-PHU'RE-OUS, a.

Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur. Her snakes untied, sulphureous waters drink. – Pope.

SUL-PHU'RE-OUS-LY, adv.

In a sulphureous manner.

SUL-PHU'RE-OUS-NESS, n.

The state of being sulphureous.

SUL'PHUR-ET, n.

A combination of sulphur with a base; as, a sulphuret of potassium. – Lavoisier. Hooper.

SUL'PHUR-ET-ED, a.

Applied to bodies having sulphur in combination; as, sulphureted hydrogen.

SUL'PHUR-IC, a.

Pertaining to sulphur; more strictly, designating an acid formed by one equivalent of sulphur combined with three equivalents of oxygen; as, sulphuric acid, formerly called vitriolic acid, or oil of vitriol. – Chimistry.