Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUF'FO-CA-TED, pp.

Choked; stilled.

SUF'FO-CA-TING, ppr.

Choking; stifling.

SUF'FO-CA-TING-LY, adv.

So as to suffocate; as, suffocatingly hot.

SUF-FO-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of choking or stifling; stopping of respiration, either by intercepting the passage of air to and from the lungs, or by inhaling smoke, dust or air that is not respirable.
2. The act of stifling, destroying or extinguishing.

SUF'FO-CA-TIVE, a.

Tending or able to choke or stifle as, suffocative catarrhs. – Arbothnot.

SUF-FOS'SION, n. [L. suffossio; sub and fodio, to dig.]

A digging under; an undermining. – Bp. Hall.

SUF'FRA-GAN, a. [Fr. suffragant; It. suffraganeo; L. suffragans, assisting; suffragor, to vote for, to favor.]

Assisting; as, a suffragan bishop.

SUF'FRA-GAN, n.

A bishop considered as an assistant to his metropolitan; or rather, an assistant bishop. By 26 Henry VIII. suffragans are to be denominated from some principal place in the diocese of the prelate whom they are to assist. – Bp. Barlow.

SUF'FRA-GANT, n.

An assistant; a favorer; one who concurs with. [Obs.] – Taylor.

SUF'FRA-GATE, v.t. [L. suffragor.]

To vote with. [Not in use.] – Hale.

SUF'FRA-GA-TOR, n. [L.]

One who assists or favors by his vote. – Bp. of Chester.

SUF'FRAGE, n. [L. suffragium; Fr. suffrage; Sax. frægnan, to ask, G. fragen.]

1. A vote; a voice given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust. Nothing can he more grateful to a good man than to be elevated to office by the unbiased suffrages of free enlightened citizens. Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrages the observation made by heathen writers. – Atterbury.
2. United voice of persons in public prayer.
3. Aid; assistance; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

SUF-FRAG'IN-OUS, a. [L. suffrago, the pastern or hough.]

Pertaining to the knee-joint of a beast. – Brown.

SUF-FRU-TES'CENT, a.

Moderately frutescent.

SUF-FRU'TI-COSE, a. [L. sub and fruticosus; frutex, a shrub.]

In botany, under-shrubby, or part shrubby; permanent or woody at the base, but the yearly branches decaying; a sage, thyme, hyssop, &c. Martyn. – Cyc.

SUF-FU'MI-GATE, v.t. [L. suffumigo.]

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of the body, as it medicine.

SUF-FU'MI-GA-TING, ppr.

Applying fumes to the parts the body.

SUF-FU-MI-GA'TION, n.

1. Fumigation; the operation of smoking any thing, or rather of applying fumes to the parts the body.
2. A term applied to all medicines that are received in the form of fumes. – Cyc.

SUF-FU'MIGE, n.

A medical fume. – Harvey.

SUF-FUSE', v.t. [suffu'ze; L. suffusus, suffundo; sub and fundo, to pour.]

To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; as, eyes suffuse with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. – Pope.

SUF-FUS'ED, pp.

Overspread, as with a fluid or with color.

SUF-FUS'ING, ppr.

Overspreading, as with a fluid or tincture.

SUF-FU'SION, n. [Fr. from L. suffusio.]

1. The act or operation of overspreading, as with a fluid or with a color.
2. The state of being suffused or spread over. To those that have the jaundice or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. – Ray.
3. That which is suffused or spread over.

SUG, n. [L. sugo, to suck.]

A kind of worm. – Walton.

SUG'AR, n. [shug'ar; Fr. sucre; Ann. sucr; Sp. azucar; It. zucchero; G. zucker; D. suiker; Dan. sokker, sukker; Sw. socker; W. sugyr; Ir. siacra; L. saccharum; Gr. σακχαρον; Pers. Ar. سُكَّرْ sukkar; Sans. scharkara; Slavonic, zakar. It is also in the Syr. and Eth.]

1. A well known substance manufactured chiefly from sugar-cane, Saccharum officinarum; but in the United States, great quantities of this article are made from sugar maple; and in France, from the beet. The saccharine liquor is concentrated by boiling, which expels the water; lime is added to neutralize the acid that is usually present; the grosser impurities rise to the surface, and are separated in the form of scum; and finally as the liquor cools, the sugar separates from the melasses in grains. The sirup or melasses is drained off, leaving the sugar in the state known in commerce by the name of raw or muscovado sugar. This is further purified by means of clay, or more extensively by bullocks' blood, which forming a coagulum, envelops the impurities. Thus clarified, it takes the names of lump, loaf, refined, &c. according to the different degrees of purification. Sugar is a proximate element of the vegetable kingdom, and is found in most ripe fruits, and many farinaceous roots. By fermentation, sugar is converted into alcohol, and hence forms the basis of those substances which are used for making intoxicating liquors, as melasses, grapes, apples, malt, &c. The ultimate elements of sugar are oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. Of all vegetable principles, it is considered by Dr. Rush as the most wholesome and nutritious.
2. An old chimical term; as, the sugar of lead, so called because it has a close resemblance to sugar in appearance, and tastes sweet. Sugar of lead, acetate of lead.