suspiret (suspir)

[= F. soupir pir, sospire = Sp. Pg. suspiro = It. sospiro, a sigh (cf. L. suspirium, a sigh, deep breathing, asthma); from the verb.] A deep breath; a sigh. Or if you cannot spare one sad suspire , It doth not bid you laugh them to their graves. Middle ton , Mas singer , and Rowley , Old Law, v. 1. suspirious (sus-pir'i-us), a. [ suspiriosus , breathing hard, asthmatic, suspire , n.] Sighing. [Rare.] That condition of breathing called suspirious . Reynolds, Epidemic Meningitis, I. 507. su (sus), n. and v. A variant of so 1 . su apinet, n. A kind of silk. Fairholt . I'll deck my Alvida In sendal, and in costly su apine. Greene, Looking Gla for London and England. su arara, n. Same as siserary. Goldsmith, Vicar, xxi. Su ex marble. In geol ., a marble composed almost entirely of two or more species of Pal- udina, and forming thin beds intercalated in the so-called Wealden clay (see Wealden ) in Kent and Su ex, England: it was formerly used to considerable extent, especially in eccle- siastical buildings, for slender shafts to support the triforia, as at Canterbury and Chi chester. Both these varieties of marble [the Purbeck and Su ex ) have now generally fallen into disuse, being inferior, both in richne of colouring and durability, to the more ancient and crystalline marbles of the British Isles. Hull , Building and Ornamental Stones, p. 119. Su ex pig. See pig1 . sustain (sus-tān'), v . [ sustenen , susteenen , sustener , sustenir , sos tenir , soustenir , F. soutenir = Pr. sostener = Sp. sostener = Pg. soster = It. sostenere , susti nere, hold up, uphold, keep up, support, endure, sustain, sus- , subs- , for sub- , under, + tenere , hold: see tenant. Cf. attain, contain, detain, pertain, retain , etc., and sustinent , sustenance, sustentate , etc.] I. trans. 1. To hold up; bear up; uphold; support. You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house. Shak., M. of V., iv. L. 376. Foure very high marble pillars which sustain a very lofty vault. Coryat , Crudities, L. 154. 2. To hold suspended; keep from falling or sinking: as, a rope sustains a weight; to sus tain one in the water.-3. To keep from sinking in despondency; support. But longe the i myght not this endure; but than com Bretell, and hem sustened , and moc he he hem comforted. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 155. If he have no comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world, he is of all creatures the most miserable. Til lots on . 4. To maintain; keep up; especially, to keep alive; support; subsist; nourish: as, provisions to sustain a family or an army; food insufficient to sustain life. If you think gods but feigned, and virtue painted, Know we sustain an actual residence. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 8. O sacred Simples that our life sustain, And, when it flies vs, call it back again! Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i 3. The Lord of all, himself through all diff us'd, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Cowper , Task, vi. 222. 5. To support in any condition by aid; vindicate, comfort, a ist, or relieve; favor. No man may serue tweyn lord is; for ethir he schal hate the toon, and loue the tother, ethir he shal susteyne the toon, and dispise the tothir. Wyclif , Mat. vi. 24. She thus endureth, til that she was so mate That she ne hath foot on which she may sustene. 2. To bear; endure; suffer. [Rare.] Diogenes's opinion is to be accepted, who commended or that which upholds; a sustainer. I lay and slept; I waked again; For my sustain Was the Lord. 2. The act of sustaining; support; mainte- nance; subsistence: as, the sustenance of life. So fro Hermeny chaced in-to Fraunce, Full long the kyng ther gaf hym sustinance , At Parys died as happned the cas. Hooker. 3. That which supports life; food; provisions; means of living. Yet their backs need not envy their bellies; Bisket, Olaves, Garlick, and Onions being their principall suste- Sandys , Travailes, p. 14. IMG:content-2572.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Same as sustentaculum. sustentacular (sus-ten-tak'u-lär), a. [ sus- And our right arme the Weedowe's sustinent. Davies , Microcosm us, p. 70. (Davies.) tentacul ( um ) + -ar3 .] Supporting; of the na- ture of a sustentaculum. Sustentacular fibers of the retina, a peculiar kind of non-nervous ti ue, arranged in columns, pa ing through the thickne of the retina from the inner to the outer limiting membrane, binding together and supporting the more delicate ner- vous structures of that membrane, and conferring consi ustrent, n. An obsolete plural of sister . tency upon the whole structure. Also called Müllerian susu (sösö), n. [Beng.] The Gangetic dolphin, fibers or radial fibers . - Sustentacular proce of the Platan ist a gang etic a . Also soosoo . See cut un- calcaneum, the sustentaculum tali (which see, under sustentaculum ). Sustentacular ti ue, connective tis- sue; especially, the Müllerian fibers (see above). sustentaculum (sus-ten-tak'ū-lum), n.; pl. sus- tentacula (-lä). [NL.: see sus tentacle . A sus- taining or supporting part or organ; specifi- cally, a strong movable spine inserted near the termination of the tarsus of each posterior leg, on the under side, in spiders of the genus Epeira. Black wall , 1839. - Sustentaculum lien is, the suspensory ligament of the spleen, a fold of perito- neum between that organ and the diaphragm. - Susten- taculum tali, the support of the talus or astragalus; the large sustentacular proce of the calcaneum or heel- bone, upon which the astragalus or ankle-bone especially rests. See cuts under foot and hock . sustentate (sus'ten-tāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. sus- tentated, ppr. sustentating . [ tain .] To sustain. [Rare.] IMG:content-2573.png:[blocks in formation] susurrant (su-sur'ant), a. [= Sp. Pg. It. susur- rante, susurrare (> It. susurrare, su urare = Sp. Pg. susurrar ), murmur, whisper, susurrus , a murmuring, whispering: see susurrus .] Murmuring; sigh- ing; whispering; susurrous. The soft susurrant sigh, and gently murmuring ki . Poetry of Antijacobin , p. 146. ( Davies .) susurration (sū-su-rā'shon), n. [F. susurra- tion = Sp. susurracion = It. susurrazione , susurratio (n-), a whispering, susurrare , mur- mur, whisper: see susurrant .] A whispering; a soft murmur. Howell , Vocall For rest, p. 2. ( Latham .) Over all the dunes there is a constant susurration, a blattering and swarming of crustacea. Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 736. The first founder, sustainer , and continuer thereof. Dr. H. More, Epistles to the Seven Churches, p. 170. [( Latham .) (bt) A sufferer. But thyself hast a sustainer been Chapman , Iliad, xxiii. 524. (c) In entom., same as sustentor . sustainment (sus-tān'ment), n. [ sustain and -ment .] The act of sus- taining; maintenance; support; also, one who or that which sustains or supports. IMG:content-2574.png:[blocks in formation] which was thir only sustainment . Milton , Hist. Eng., iii. Raising hand and head Thither where eyes, that cannot reach, yet yearn For all hope, all sustainment , all reward. Browning , Ring and Book, Invocation. sustenance (sus'te-nans), n. [ so us ten ance , sustenance, F. soutenance = Pr. sostenensa = It. sostenenza , sustinent i a , a sustaining, endurance, pa- + -ive . ] Sustaining; maintaining; affording tience, sustinen (t-)s, ppr. of sustinere , sus- tain, endure: see sustinent , sustain .] 1. An upholding; the act of bearing. [Rare.] nourishment or subsistence. Each cell, or that element of a ti ue which proceeds from the modification of a cell, must needs retain its sus- tentative functions so long as it grows or maintains a con- Barrow , Works (ed. 1831), VI. 80. dition of equilibrium. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 28. IMG:content-2575.png:[blocks in formation] sutet, n. and v . An obsolete form of suit . sutelyt, adv . An obsolete form of suitly . sutert, n. An obsolete form of suitor . Sutherlandia (suTH-er-land'i-ä), n. [NL. (R. Brown, 1811), named after James Sutherland , a Scottish botanist (end of 17th century).] A ge- nus of leguminous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ and subtribe Coluteæ . It is characterized by flowers with an erect banner-petal, prominent and somewhat acute keel, longitudinally bearded style, and small term i- nal stigma, followed by a membranous inflated ovoid pod, with reniform seeds. The only species, S. frutescens , is a hoary South African shrub, with odd-pinnate leaves of numerous entire leaflets, and handsome scarlet flowers grouped in short axillary racemes. It is known in Eng- lish gardens as Cape bladder - senna ; its powdered roots and leaves are said to have been useful in diseases of the eye. Suthora (sū-thoʻra), n . [NL. (Hodgson, 1838).] A genus of babbling thrushes, of the group Crateropodes , or family Timeliidæ . The bill has much greater depth than breadth opposite the nostrils, the rictal bristles are nearly obsolete, the nostrils are hidden by antrorse plumules, the wings and tail are of about the same length, and the culminal ridge is rounded and tapers to a point. About a dozen species inhabit the Him a lay an regions, extending through the hills of A am and Burma Suthora to those of China and Formosa; S. nipa lens is is a characteristic example. The genus is also called Temnorhis. sutile (sū'til), a. [L. sutilis, sewed or bound together, These [crowns and garlands) were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile , plectile. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, ii. Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry. Johnson, Idler, No. 13. sutlet, v. See suttle2 .