<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>
<A NAME="suijuris">
<B>sui juris,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) that is of age and presumably sane, and therefore legally competent to act and legally responsible for actions. <BR> <I>Ex. I made it a rule never to take for treatment anyone who was not sui juris, independent of others in all the essential relations of life (Sigmund Freud).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suilline">
<B>suilline, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with swine. </DL>
<A NAME="suimate">
<B>suimate, </B>noun. =self-mate.</DL>
<A NAME="suine">
<B>suine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty substances, used as a substitute for butter. </DL>
<A NAME="suint">
<B>suint, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> dried perspiration found in the natural grease of sheep's wool, containing potash. </DL>
