SPage 674
- English Word Suspicious Definition Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
- English Word Suspicious Definition Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
- English Word Suspiral Definition A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.
- English Word Suspiral Definition A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
- English Word Suspiration Definition The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
- English Word Suspire Definition To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
- English Word Suspire Definition A long, deep breath; a sigh.
- English Word Suspired Definition Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.
- English Word Sustain Definition To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
- English Word Sustain Definition Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.
- English Word Sustain Definition To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.
- English Word Sustain Definition To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- English Word Sustain Definition To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.
- English Word Sustain Definition To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
- English Word Sustain Definition To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
- English Word Sustain Definition To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.
- English Word Sustain Definition One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
- English Word Sustainable Definition Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
- English Word Sustained Definition of Sustain
- English Word Sustained Definition Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
- English Word Sustainer Definition One who, or that which, sustains.
- English Word Sustaining Definition of Sustain
- English Word Sustainment Definition The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
- English Word Sustaltic Definition Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks.
- English Word Sustenance Definition The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
- English Word Sustenance Definition That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
- English Word Sustentacle Definition Sustenance.
- English Word Sustentacular Definition Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.
- English Word Sustentate Definition To sustain.
- English Word Sustentation Definition The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.