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<A NAME="sugarloaf">
<B>sugar loaf,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a solid, cone-shaped mass of hard, refined sugar. It is the form in which sugar was generally sold during most of the period from the late Middle Ages to the middle of the 1800's. <DD><B> 2. </B>something shaped like a sugar loaf, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>a high, cone-shaped hill. <BR> <I>Ex. here and there the outline of a wooded sugar loaf in black (Robert L. Stevenson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a tall, cone-shaped hat. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarloaf">
<B>sugar-loaf, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like a sugar loaf. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarmaple">
<B>sugar maple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a maple tree of eastern North America, highly valued for its heavy, hard, tough wood and for its sweet sap, from which maple sugar and maple syrup are made. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarmill">
<B>sugar mill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a machine or factory for making sugar, as by pressing the juice out of sugar cane. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarnucleotide">
<B>sugar nucleotide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Biochemistry.) any one of a group of sugars which are bound to the phosphate group of nucleotides, are intermediates in the conversion of one sugar to another, and serve as a source of sugar units in forming polysaccharides. <BR> <I>Ex. Research all over the world ... has produced more than 100 different sugar nucleotides--essential components in biochemical reactions (Science Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>sugar pine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tall pine of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Mexico, which gives off a sugarlike resin when cut deep into the wood. It bears very large cones. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarplum">
<B>sugarplum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small piece of candy; bonbon. <BR> <I>Ex. The children were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads (Clement C. Moore).</I> (SYN) confection, comfit. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarsoap">
<B>sugar soap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an alkaline substance that resembles sugar, used for cleansing a surface before painting. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarstate">
<B>Sugar State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for Louisiana. </DL>
<A NAME="sugartongs">
<B>sugar tongs,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> small tongs for lifting cubes of sugar from a bowl. </DL>
<A NAME="sugartree">
<B>sugar tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=sugar maple.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any tree from which sugar syrup or sugary sap can be obtained. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarvinegar">
<B>sugar vinegar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> vinegar made of the waste juice of sugar cane. </DL>
<A NAME="sugarworks">
<B>sugarworks, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (sing. in use). a place where sugar is made. </DL>
<A NAME="sugary">
<B>sugary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>consisting of or containing much sugar. <DD><B> 2. </B>like sugar; sweet. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) outwardly, but not sincerely, pleasant or agreeable; deceitfully or flatteringly pleasant. <BR> <I>Ex. a sugary greeting.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) excessively or offensively sweet. <BR> <I>Ex. The pudding was too sugary for my taste.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suggest">
<B>suggest, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to bring to mind; call up the thought of. <BR> <I>Ex. The thought of summer suggests swimming, tennis, and hot weather. Democratic Athens, oligarchic Rome, suggest to us Pericles and Brutus (James Bryce).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put forward; propose. <BR> <I>Ex. He suggested a swim, and we all agreed. I suggest that you follow me immediately.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to provide the motive for; prompt. <BR> <I>Ex. Prudence suggested the necessity of a temporary retreat (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to show in an indirect way; hint; intimate. <BR> <I>Ex. His yawns suggested that he would like to go to bed. Bad manners suggest a lack of proper home training. The first [report] sounded as though the administration was about ready to throw Negro troops into the war, while the later one suggested that the administration was still hesitating (Carl Sandburg).</I> (SYN) insinuate. noun <B>suggester.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="suggestibility">
<B>suggestibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being suggestible. <BR> <I>Ex. Crowd emotionality is perhaps best interpreted in terms of heightened suggestibility, that is the tendency of an individual in a crowd to respond uncritically to the stimuli provided by the other members (Ogburn and Nimkoff).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suggestible">
<B>suggestible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>capable of being influenced by suggestion; readily swayed or influenced. <BR> <I>Ex. We are tremendously suggestible. Our mechanism is much better adapted to credulity than questioning (James Harvey Robinson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>capable of being influenced by hypnotic suggestion. <DD><B> 3. </B>that can be suggested; capable of suggestion. <BR> <I>Ex. a suggestible solution.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suggestiofalsi">
<B>suggestio falsi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) suggestion of the false; indirect lie; conscious misrepresentation, whether by words, conduct, or artifice. </DL>
<A NAME="suggestion">
<B>suggestion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of suggesting; the putting into the mind of an idea, course of action, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The trip was made at her suggestion.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing suggested; proposal. <BR> <I>Ex. The picnic was an excellent suggestion.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the action of calling up one idea by another because they are connected or associated in some way. <DD><B> 4. </B>a very small amount; slight trace; hint; inkling. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a suggestion of anger in Father's voice when he called us in from play for the third time. The foreigner spoke English with just a suggestion of his native accent.</I> (SYN) soupcon, touch. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Psychology.) <DD><B> a. </B>the insinuation of an idea, belief, or impulse into the mind, especially a hypnotized person's mind, with avoidance of normal critical thought or contrary ideas. <DD><B> b. </B>the idea, belief, or impulse so insinuated. </DL>
<A NAME="suggestionbox">
<B>suggestion box,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a box in which written suggestions for improvement are put, as by employees in a factory or business or patrons in a theater or restaurant. </DL>
<A NAME="suggestive">
<B>suggestive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tending to suggest ideas, acts, or feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher gave an interesting and suggestive list of composition subjects.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>conveying a suggestion or hint (of something). <BR> <I>Ex. a tone suggestive of anger.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>tending to suggest something improper or indecent. <BR> <I>Ex. Bribery is a suggestive incentive to many weak politicians.</I> adv. <B>suggestively.</B> noun <B>suggestiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sugi">
<B>sugi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tall Japanese tree of the pine family, whose wood is compact, very white, soft, and much used in construction. </DL>
<A NAME="suicidal">
<B>suicidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with suicide. <BR> <I>Ex. a suicidal individual, a suicidal weapon.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>leading to or causing suicide. <BR> <I>Ex. suicidal behavior, the suicidal impulse. War has become so obviously self-defeating and suicidal (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) ruinous to one's own interests; disastrous to oneself. <BR> <I>Ex. It would be suicidal for a store to sell many things below cost. We still await the arrival of a time of political maturity among candidates ... when courageous discussion of taxation is not considered suicidal in a bid for public office (New York Times).</I> adv. <B>suicidally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="suicide">
<B>suicide</B> (1), noun, adjective, verb, <B>-cided,</B> <B>-ciding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of killing oneself on purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. The police think the death was suicide.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the destruction of one's own interests or prospects. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>designating a military action or operation that is certain, or almost certain, to result in the death of the person or persons involved; suicidal. <BR> <I>Ex. a suicide attack, suicide missions.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>undertaking such actions or operations. <BR> <I>Ex. a suicide pilot, suicide squads.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>used in such actions or operations. <BR> <I>Ex. a suicide airplane, suicide bombs.</I> <DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to commit suicide; kill (oneself). <BR><I>expr. <B>commit suicide,</B> </I>to kill oneself on purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. to commit suicide in a moment of wild despair.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suicide">
<B>suicide</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who kills himself on purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. Christian burial has usually been denied suicides (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suicidemachine">
<B>suicide machine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus consisting of hypodermic syringes, one of which contains a self-administered lethal dose of a drug, taken by a patient who is terminally ill. <BR> <I>Ex. His homemade suicide machine ... Kervorkian's spooky Rube Goldberg contraption, rigged up in the back of his VW van, that enabled [the patient] to dispatch herself (Tina Brown).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suicideseat">
<B>suicide seat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) the seat next to the driver in an automobile. <BR> <I>Ex. Those who drive with dogs in their laps, or with young children bouncing about on the "suicide seat" next to them ... are equally irresponsible (Scotsman).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suicidesquad">
<B>suicide squad,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a group of soldiers or guerrillas who undertake suicide missions in enemy territory. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Football Slang.) a group of players specially selected for kickoffs and punting. </DL>
<A NAME="suicidologist">
<B>suicidologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person engaged in the study of suicide and in its prevention. </DL>
<A NAME="suicidology">
<B>suicidology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of suicide and suicidal behavior. </DL>
<A NAME="suigeneris">
<B>sui generis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) of his, her, its, or their peculiar kind; unique. <BR> <I>Ex. Indeed, society itself is ... an entity sui generis, something real in itself and unlike a mere sum of the individuals of which it is composed (Hinkle and Hinkle).</I> (SYN) unmatchable. </DL>
