sugent (su jent)

[L. sugen (t-)s, ppr. of sugere, suck: see suck1.] Sucking; imbibing; suctorial; fitted for or habitually sucking: as, a sugent proce ; a sugent animal. Sugentia (su-jen's hi-ä), n. pl. [NL. (Brandt): see sugent.] A suborder or an order of myriapods; the sugent or suctorial millepeds, having the opening of the sexual organs in the anterior part of the body; the families Polyzoniidæ and Siphonophoridæ. Also Siphonizantia. sugescent (sū-jes'ent), a. [L. sugere, suck, + -escent.] Fitted for sucking or imbibing; sugent; suctorial; haustellate. Paley, Nat. Theol., xviii. suggest (su-jest'), v. [ It. suggerire = Sp. sugerir = Pg. suggerir = F. suggérer ), carry or bring under, suggestion furnish, supply, produce, excite, advise, suggest, Nature her selfe suggest eth the figure in this or that forme: but arte aydeth the iudgement of his vse and application. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 249. Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? .. Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 230. Virgil. loves to suggest a truth indirectly, and, without giving us a full and open view of it, to let us see just so much as will naturally lead the imagination into all the parts that lie concealed. Add is on, On Virgil's Georgics. Sunder land, therefore, with exquisite cunning, suggest ed to his master the propriety of asking the only proof of obedience which it was quite certain that Rochester never would give. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. 2. To act, as an idea, so as to call up (another idea) by virtue either of an a ociation or of a natural connection between the ideas. The sight of part of a large building suggests the idea of the rest instantaneously. Hartley, Observations on Man, I. ii. 10. We all know that a certain kind of sound suggests immediately to the mind a coach pa ing in the street, and not only produces the imagination, but the belief, that a coach is pa ing. Reid , Inquiry into the Human Mind, II. vii. 3t. To seduce; tempt; tempt away (from). There's my purse; I give thee not this to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of; serve him still. Shak., All's Well, iv. 5. 47. I, Dametas, chief governor of all the royal cattle, and also of Pamela, whom thy master most perniciously hath suggested out of my dominion, do defy thee in a mortal affray. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. = Syn, 1. Intimate, Insinuate, etc. See hint1.- 2. To indicate, prompt, advise, remind of. II. in trans. To make suggestions; be tempting; present thoughts or motives with indirectne or with diffidence to the mind. O sweet suggesting Love, if thou hast sinn'd, Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it. Shak ., T. G. of V., ii. 5. 7. IMG:content-2437.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2438.jpg:[blocks in formation]