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SUCCESSLESS, adj. Unlucky; unfortunate; failing 
of the event desired. 
Successless all her soft caresses prove, 
To banish from his breast his country’s love. Pope. 
SUCCE'SSLESSNESS, s. Not prosperous conclusion ; 
unsuccessful ness. Boyle has somewhere used this word. 
SU'CCESSOR, s. One that follows in the place or cha¬ 
racter of another. 
The surly savage offspring disappear, 
And curse the bright successor of the year; 
Yet crafty kind with daylight can dispense. Dry den . 
SUCCINCT, adj. Tucked or girded up; having the 
clothes drawn up to disengage the legs.—His habit fit for 
speed succinct. Milton. —Short; concise; brief.—A strict 
and succinct stile is that where you can take nothing away 
without loss, and that loss manifest. B. Jonson. 
SUCCINCTLY, adv. Briefly; concisely; without su¬ 
perfluity of diction. 
I’ll recant, when France can shew me wit 
As strong as ours, and as succinctly writ. Roscommon. 
SUCCINCTNESS, s. Brevity ; conciseness.—We have 
designed this in such a method, as that—the succinctness 
and brevity thereof may not make it the more obscure. 
Hartlil). 
SUCCONDEE, a sea-port on the Gold coast of Africa, in 
the country of Ahanta, where some trade is carried on. The 
Dutch have here a respectable fort; and the English, till of 
late, had a settlement, which however, they have now with¬ 
drawn. 
SUCCOOT, a town of Nubia, on the Nile, near the fron¬ 
tier of Dongola, and a little above the great cataract; 160 
miles north of Dongola. 
SU'CCORY, s. A plant. Cic/iorium. 
A garden-sallad 
Of endive, radishes, and succory. Dryden. 
To SU'CCOUR, v. a. To help; to assist in difficulty or 
distress; to relieve. 
As that famous queen 
Of Amazons, whom Pyrrhus did destroy. 
Did shew herself in great triumphant joy. 
To succour the weak state of sad afflicted Troy. Spenser. 
SU'CCOUR, s. Aid; assistance ; relief of any kind ; 
help in distress. 
My father. 
Flying for succour to his servant Banister, 
Being distress’d, was by that wretch betray’d. Shalcspeare. 
The person or things that bring help. 
Our watchful general hath discern’d from far 
The mighty succour which made glad the foe. Dryden. 
SU'CCOURER, s. Helper; assistant; reliever.—She 
hath been a succourrr of many. Romans. 
SU'CCOURLESS, adj. Wanting relief; void of friends 
or help.—Leave them slaves, and succourless. Beaum. 
and FI. 
SU'CCUBA, or Su'ccubus, s. A pretended kind of 
demon. 
His ancient grandame. 
Though seeming in shape a woman natural!, 
Was a fiend of the kind that succubcc some call. Mir. 
SU'CCULENCE, or Su'cculency, s. Juiciness. 
SU'CCULENT, adj. \succulentus , Lat.] Juicy ; moist. 
—These plants have a strong, dense, and succulent mois¬ 
ture, which is not apt to exhale. Bacon. 
To SUCCU'MB, v. n. [succumbo , Lat., succomber, Fr.] 
To yield; to sink under any difficulty. Not in use. 
Johnson. 
To their wills we must succumb, 
Suocunque trahunt, ’tis our doom. Htulibras. 
Wisdom succumbing under the bauble of folly. War,burton. 
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SUCCUMI, a town of Niphon, in Japan; 25 miles south¬ 
west of Fumai. 
SUCCUSSA'TION, s. [succussatio, low Lat.] A trot. 
—They move two legs of one side together, which is toluta- 
tion or ambling, or lift one foot before and the cross foot 
behind, which is succussation or trotting. Brown. 
SUCCUSSION, s. [succussio, Lat.] The act of shaking 
or trembling.—When any of that risible species were brought 
to the doctor, and when he considered the spasms of the dia¬ 
phragm, and all the muscles of respiration, with the tremulous 
succussion of the whole human body, he gave such patients 
over. Arbuthnot. 
SUCH, adj. [swaleik , Goth. i. e. swa, so, and leik, 
like; sulclc, solk, Teut. i. e. so-lick; ypilc, Saxon. Wic- 
liffe uses s-wilke for such.'] Of that kind; of the like kind. 
With as before the thing to which it relates, when the thing 
follows: as, such a power as a king’s; such a gift as a 
kingdom.—’Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfum’d 
one. Skakspeare —Can we find such a one as this, in 
whom the spirit of God is ? Gen. —The works of the flesh 
are manifest, such are drunkenness, revellings and such like. 
Gal. 
Such are the cold Riphean race, and such 
The savage Scythian. Dryden. 
The same that: with as. —This was the state of the king¬ 
dom of Tunis at such time as Barbarossa, with Solyman’s 
great fleet, landed in Africk. Knolles. —Comprehended 
under the term premised, like what has been said. 
That thou art happy, owe to God; 
That thou continu’st such, owe to thyself. Milton. 
A manner of expressing a particular person or thing. 
I saw him yesterday 
With such and such. Shalcspeare. 
Those artists who propose only the imitation of such or 
such a particular person, without election of those ideas 
before mentioned have been reproached for that omission. 
Dryden. 
SUCHITEPEQUE, a district of Guatimala, to the south 
of the province of Soconusco. It is throughout of a very 
hot temperature, and subject to continual rams, with tempests 
of thunder and lightning. 
SUCHITEPEQUE, San Antonio de, the capital of 
the above province, situated on a river of the same name, 
running into the Pacific Ocean. It contains 1480 Indians, 
occupied in the cultivation of cochineal and indigo; 72 
miles north-west of Guatimala. Lat. 14. 47. N. long. 92. 
14. W. 
SUCHONA, a large river of the north of European Russia, 
which issues from Lake Kubenskoi, in the government of 
Vologda, flows southward till it reaches Usting, then turns 
north, receives the Jug, and afterwards takes the name of 
Dwina. 
SUCHOVOLKA, a small town in the west of European 
Russia, in the province of Bialystok. Population 1000. 
SUCHTELN, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, in 
the duchy of Juliers. It contains 3600 inhabitants, whose 
chief employment as manufacturers, is the weaving of velvet; 
15 miles west-by-north of Dussoldori, and 17 east-north-east 
of Ruremond. 
To SUCK, v. a. [j-ucan, Saxon; sugo, suction, Latin ; 
succer, French.] To draw by making a rarefaction of the 
air.—To draw in with the mouth.—The cup of astonishment 
thou shalt drink, and suck it out. Ezek. 
We’ll hand in hand to the dark mansions go, 
Where, sucking in each other’s latest breath. 
We may tranfuse our souls. Dryden. 
To draw with the milk. 
Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me; 
But own thy pride thyself. Skakspeare. 
To empty by sucking.—A fox lay with whole swarms of 
flies sucking and galling of him. L'Estrange. 
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