Sutoria (sutoria)

[NL. (Nicholson, 1851), very extensively distributed in the range of the genus; S. edela is Javanese; and S. maculicollis inhabits the Malay peninsula. Compare the cut under Ortho tom us, and see cut under tailor - bird. sutorial (sū-to'ri-al), a. [L. sutor, a cobbler (see sutor ), + -ial.] Of or pertaining to a cobbler; cobbling. [Rare.] The intervals of his sutorial operations. Daily Telegraph , March 13, 1887. ( Encyc . Dict.) Sutra (sö'trä), n. [ F.soutra , sūtra , lit. a thread, string, siv , sew, cf. L. suere = E. sewl : see sewl .] In Sanskrit lit. , a body of rules or precepts. In Brahmanic use, applied especially to collections of three cla es: (1) çräuta - sūtras , directions concerning the more elaborate and important ceremonies; (2) grihya - sūtras , concerning minor or household rites and practices; (3) dharma - sūtras , concerning the conduct of life, the duties of the castes, etc. The first two are reckoned as part of the Veda. In Buddhist literature, applied to general expositions of doctrine, the sermons of Buddha, etc., constituting the second of the three principal divisions.