Button 
to those of China and Formosa ; S. nipalen*i is a charac- 
teristic example. The genus is also called Teinnorhis. 
SUtile (su'til), . [< L. sutilia, sewed or bound 
together, < suere, pp. xutus, sew, stitch, join to- 
gether: see seir 1 .] Done by stitching. 
These [crowns and garlands] were made up after all ways 
df art, compactile, sulile, plectile. 
Sir T. JSroirne, Misc. Tracts, ii. 
Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of mtile pic- 
tures, which imitate tapestry. Jiihmon, Idler, Ho. IS. 
sutlet, See suttlcV. 
sutler (sut'ler), . [Formerly also sutteler; < 
MD. soeteler, later goetelaer, zocMurr, D. zoete- 
Inur (= MLG. sudeler, sutelcr, sutteler), a ped- 
dler, vietualer, esp. a military victualer, a sut- 
ler, also a scullion, < soelelen, later goetelen, I). 
soetelen, act as sutler, do dirty or mean work, 
peddle, tr. soil, sully, = LG. suddeln = MHG. 
xixlela, sully: see guttle 2 ."] A person who fol- 
lows an army for the purpose of selling pro- 
visions, liquors, etc., to the troops. 
The very gutters and horse boyes of the Canipe will be 
able to rout and chase them without the staining of any 
Noble sword. Milton, Church-Government, i. 7. 
sutlership (sut'ler-ship), . [< sutler + -ship.] 
The office or occupation of a sutler. Harper's 
Mag., LXXIX. 178. 
sutlery (sut'ler-i), n.; pi. sutlcries (-iz). [< MD. 
soetelrije, later zoetelrye, dirty work, drudgery, 
sordid business, < soetelen, do dirty work : see 
sutler, suttle^.~] 1. The occupation of a sutler ; 
drudgery. 
Has my sutlery, tapstry, laundrie, made mee be tane upp 
at the court? Marston, The Fawne, iv. 7. 
2. A place where provisions, liquor, etc., are 
sold ; a sutler's shop. 
sutlingt, !> a - -A- n obsolete spelling of suttling. 
SUtor (su'tor), n. [< L. sutor, a shoemaker, 
cobbler, < suere, pp. sutus, sew : see sew 1 . Cf . 
muter.] A cobbler. 
Sutoria (su-to'ri-a), ii. [NL. (Nicholson, 1851), 
< L. sutor, a cobbler: see sutor.~\ A genus 
of tailor-birds, having twelve tail-feathers, of 
which the middle pair are long-exserted be- 
yond the rest and the others are graduated. 
They inhabit India and Ceylon, the Burmese countries, 
the Malay peninsula, southern China, and Java, and were 
formerly included in the genus Orthotomus. S. sutoria or 
lonyicauda is the long-tailed tailor-bird or tailor-warbler, 
Tailor-bird (Sitfort'a 
very extensively distributed in the range of the genua ; S. 
edela is Javanese ; and S. maculicottis inhabits the Malay 
peninsula. Compare the cut under Orthotomus, and see 
cut under tailor-bird. 
SUtorial (su-to'ri-al), a. [< L. sutor, a cobbler 
(see sutor), + -ial."] Of or pertaining to a cob- 
bler; cobbling. [Rare.] 
The intervals of his tutorial operations. 
Daily Telegraph, March 13, 1887. (Encyc. Diet.) 
Sutra (so'tra), . [= F. soutra, < Skt. sutra, lit. 
a thread, string, < -\/ sir, sew, cf. L. suere = E. 
sew 1 : see sew 1 .'] In Sanskrit lit., a, body of rules 
or precepts. In Brahmanic use, applied especially to 
collections of three classes : (1) crauta-sutras, directions 
concerning the more elaborate and important ceremonies ; 
(2) grihya-sutras, concerning minor or household rites and 
practices ; (3) dharma-sutras, concerning the conduct of 
life, the duties of the castes, etc. The first two are 
reckoned as part of the Veda. In Buddhist literature, ap- 
plied to general expositions of doctrine, the sermons of 
Buddha, etc., constituting the second of the three princi- 
pal divisions. 
SUtt (sut), . [Origin obscure.] A species of 
sea-bird. Whiteaves. [Gulf of St. Lawrence.] 
SUttee (su-te'), n. [Also, better, sati; F.suttie, 
suttee (< E.), < Hind, sati, a faithful wife, esp. 
one who burns herself on the funeral pile of 
her husband; hence also the burning itself; 
Skt. sati, fem. of sant, existing, true, virtuous, 
abbr. from *asant, ppr. of / as, be, exist : see 
urn, is, sooth.'] 1. A Hindu widow who immo- 
lates herself on the funeral pile, either with the 
body of her husband, or separately if he died at 
a distance. 2. The voluntary self-immolation 
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of Hindu widows on the funeral pile of their 
husbands according to a Brahmanieal rite. The 
custom is not known or commanded in the most ancient 
sacred books of the Hindus, but is early spoken of as 
highly meritorious. The practice is now abolished in 
British India, and is all but extinct in the native states. 
One of the lirst acts of the Dharmasabha was to petition 
Government against the abolition of Suttee that is, in fa- 
vour of the continuance of the burning of widows. 
Max Uliiller, Biograph. Essays, p. 2.">. 
sutteeism (su-te'izm), . [< suttee + -/*/.] 
The practice of self-immolation among Hindu 
widows. 
SUttle 1 t, An obsolete spelling of subtle. 
SUttle 2 t (sut'l), r. i. [Also sutle; < MD. soetelen, 
D. soetelen, peddle, act as sutler, do dirty or 
mean work, tr. soil, sully, daub, = LG. *(/- 
deln = MHG. G. sudeln (Dan. sudle < G.), soil, 
sully; a freq. verb, akin to Sw. sudda, soil, 
daub, stain, G. sudel, a puddle, etc., from the 
root of MD. sieden, D. zicden = G. sieden, etc., 
boil, seethe: see seethe, sod 1 , sud, suds. The 
sense of 'dirty work' seems to come from the 
notion of ' wet' involved in notft-, suds, etc.] To 
peddle ; act as sutler. 
Zoetelen, to sullie, to suttle (var. sutle, ed. 1878) or to 
victuall. IIexham, Netherdutch and Eng. Diet. (1658). 
suttle 3 (sut'l), a. [Perhaps < It. sotile, sottile, 
fine, subtle: see suttle 1 , now subtle.'] Light; 
in the light weight previous to the additional 
goods delivered for tret. Since tret went out of 
use, very long ago, though continued in the arithmetic 
books, it has come to be wrongly stated to be a deduction, 
instead of an addition not to the number of pounds but 
to the amount of goods delivered ; and ttuttle is sometimes 
erroneously called a noun. 
At 16 pound the 100 suttle, what shall 895 pound suttle 
be worth, in giving 4 pound weight upon every 100 for 
treat. Mellis, Rules of Practice (before 1600), Till. 
suttling (sut'ling), p. a. Belonging to sutlers; 
engaged in the occupation of a sutler. 
A Buttling wench, with a bottle of brandy under her arm. 
Addison, Tatler, No. 260. 
Button's quadrant. See quadrant. 
sutural (su'tu-ral), a. [< suture + -l.~\ 1. Of 
or pertaining to a suture: as, a sutural line; 
sutural articulation. 2. Situated in a suture : 
effecting suture: as, sittoraHigament ; sutural 
cartilage. 3. In lot., takingplace at, or other- 
wise relating to, a suture: as, the sutural de- 
hiscence of a pericarp. Sutural bones, the ossa 
triquetra, or Wormian bones, of the skull. See under os. 
Sutural cartilage, the flbrocartilage which forms an 
edging to the flat bones of the skull. Sutural ligament, 
a thin layer of fibrous tissue interposed between immov- 
ably articulated bones, as between the cranial bones. 
suturally (sii'tu-ral-i), adr. So as to be su- 
tured ; by means of a suture : as, bones sutural - 
ly connected. Quart. Jour. Genl. .S'or., XLV.511. 
SUturatet (su'tu-rat), r. t. [< suture + -ate 2 .] 
To suture. [6are.] 
Six several bones, . . . indurated among themselves. 
J. Smith, Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age, p. 93. 
guturation (su-tu-ra'shon), 11. The formation 
of a suture ; the state of being sutured. 
suture (su'tur), n. [= F. suture = Pr. Sp. Pg. 
It. sutura, < L. sutura, a seam, < suere, pp. su- 
tes, sew, stitch, join : see sew 1 .] 1. The act of 
sewing; a sewing together, or joining along a 
line or seam ; hence (rarely), the state of being 
connected; connectedness. 
Alister was reading from an old manuscript volume of 
his brother's, which he had found in a chest. ... It had 
abundance of faults, and in especial lacked suture. 
George Macdonald, What's Mine's Mine, xiii. 
2. A line of joining, uniting, or closure as if 
by sewing, stitching, or knitting together; a 
seam; a raphe. Specifically (a) In anat., a linear 
synarthrosis or immovable articulation, especially of the 
bones of the skuU. In man and other mammals all the 
cranial bones excepting the lower jaw are united by joints 
technically called sutures, and in all vertebrates which 
have bony skulls the sutures are numerous, uniting most 
of the bones. Sutures are classified or described in va- 
rious ways: (1) by the mode of apposition of the united 
surfaces or edges of the bones, as the squamous suture, 
the harmonic suture, the dentate, the limbale, etc. (see 
synarthrosis); (2) by the shape or position of the suture, 
as the coronal, sagittal, lambdoid suture (many of these 
sutures appeal' in the cuts under cranium and skull, and 
in most of the other skulls figured in this dictionary); (3) 
by the names of the two bones which are sutured, as the 
frontoparietal, occipitoparietal, sphenoparietal suture. See 
phrases following. (6) In entom., the fine along which the 
elytra of opposite sides meet and sometimes are confluent. 
(c) In conch., the line of junction of the successive whorls 
of a univalve shell, or the line of closure of the opposite 
valves of a bivalve shell, (d) In cephalopods, the out- 
line of the septa of the tetrabranchiates, which resem- 
ble in some respects the dentate sutures of the cranial 
bones. These lines are variously traced in different cases ; 
when they are folded the elevations or saliences are called 
saddles, and the intervening depressions or reentrances 
are called lobes. 
3. In but., the seam or line of junction between 
two edges, as between the component carpels 
suture 
of a pericarp, there commonly marking the lino 
of dehiscence. 4. Insury.: (a) The uniting ot 
the lips or edges of a wound by stitching or 
stitches, or in some equivalent manner, (b) 
One of the stitches or fastenings used to m;ike 
such a union of the lips of a wound. 
This was excised from the cartilage, and the lips of 
the cut partly approximated by two metallic mttures. 
J. M. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 48. 
Basilar suture. See &7ar. Biparietal suture. Same 
asa<;(taJ<Hrc. Buccal, claval, clypeal suture. Sec 
the adjectives. Clypeofrontal suture. .Same as clypeal 
euture. Coronary or coronal suture. See coronary. 
Dentate suture, a suture effected by interlocking teeth 
without beveling of either bone, as the interparietal su- 
ture. Dorsal, epicranial, facial suture. See the ad- 
jectives. Ethmofrontal suture, ethmosphenoid su- 
ture, the articulations, respectively, of the ethmoid with 
the frontal and with the sphenoid bone. False suture, 
suture by mere apposition of rough suifaces, as in the har- 
monic and squamous varieties : little used. Frontal su- 
ture, (a) In anat., the serrate suture between the right 
and left halves of the frontal bone. In adult man it is usu- 
ally obliterated by confluence of the bones : when it per- 
sists, it continues the line of the sagittal suture down the 
middle of the forehead to the root of the nose. More ac- 
curately called interfrontal siLture. (b) In entom., same as 
clypeal suture. Frontoparietal suture, the coronal su- 
ture. Frontospnenoidal suture, the suture between 
the frontal and sphenoidal bones, chiefly the line of appo- 
sition of each orbital plate of the frontal with the corre- 
sponding orbitosphenoid. Genal suture. Sec yenal. 
Great suture. Same as genal svture.GulSLl su- 
tures. Same as buccal sutures. Harmonic suture, 
suture by means of flat rough surfaces apposed with- 
out beveling : a variety of false suture. Interfrontal 
suture, the frontal suture. Intermaxillary suture, 
the harmonic suture between the right and left superior 
maxillary bones, effected chiefly by their palatal plates 
and alveolar borders. Internasal suture, the suture 
between the right and left nasal bones. Interparie- 
tal suture, the sagittal suture. Lambdoid suture, 
the occipitoparietal suture : so called because in man it 
presents the shape of the Greek capital letter lambda (A). 
It is noted for its irregular zigzag course and deep den- 
tations, often including VVormian bones. Limbose su- 
ture, a suture with beveled edges and toothed processes, 
as the coronal or frontoparietal of man. Mastoccipital 
suture, the suture between the mastoid part of the tempo- 
ral bone and the occipital. Mastoparietal suture, the 
suture between the mastoid part of the temporal bone and 
the parietal : it is short and deeply dentated in man, and 
non-existent in most animals. Mental, metopic, nasal, 
neurocentral suture. See the adjectives. Occipito- 
parietal suture, thelambdoid suture. Palatine, pari- 
etomastoid, parieto-occipital suture. See the adjec- 
tives. Parietosquamosal suture, the suture between 
the parietal bone and the squamous part of the temporal 
bone. Parietotemporal suture, the suture between 
the parietal and temporal bones. Petroccipital su- 
ture, the suture between the petrous part of the temporal 
bone and the occipital : in man it is irregular and incom- 
plete, interrupted by the posterior lacerate foramen. Pet- 
rosphenoidal suture, the suture between the petrous 
part of the temporal and the greater wing of the sphenoid 
bone ; the suture between the petrosal and alisphenoid. 
Petrosquamous suture. See petrosquamous. fio- 
sternal sutures. See prosternal. Quilled suture, in 
Quilled Sutures. 
surg., a double interrupted suture drawn over a piece of 
bougie or quill at either end. Ramdohr's suture, a 
form of suture used to unite a transversely divided intes- 
tine. The upper portion of gut is invaginated in the low- 
er, and secured by a single point of suture, which also at- 
taches the intestine to the abdominal wound. Sagittal, 
serrate, sphenofrontal suture. See the adjectives. 
Sphenomalar suture, the suture between the malar 
and any part of the sphenoid. It is a rare articulation, 
occasional in man. Sphenopalatine suture, the su- 
ture of the palate bone with the sphenoid. Spheno- 
parietal suture, the suture between the parietal and 
alisphenoid bones. Sphenopetrosal suture, the su- 
ture between the sphenoid and the petrous part of the 
temporal bone. Sphenotemporal suture, the suture 
between the sphenoid and temporal bones. Squa- 
mosphenoidal suture, the suture between the squa- 
mosal and sphenoidal bones. Squamous suture. See 
squamous. Temporal suture. Same as petrosqua- 
inous suture. Transverse suture, of man, the series of 
articulations of the frontal bone with the sphenoid, eth- 
moid, and several facial bones, extending entirely across 
the upper part of the face, nearly on a level with the roof 
of the orbits of the eyes. The bones thus sutured with 
the frontal are the ethmoid and sphenoid in mid-line, and 
the nasal, lacrymal, malar, and superior maxillary on each 
side. True suture, suture by indented borders of bones, 
as in the dentate, serrate, and limbose sutures. Compare 
false suture, above. 
suture (su'tur), r. t. ; pret. ;ind pp. xiitiirrd, ppr. 
xiitiiriiii/. "[< xii/iirc, M.] To unite in a suture 
