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concurring with.—Heavenly doctrine ought to be chief ruler 
and principal head every where, and not suffragant and 
subsidiary. Florio. 
SU'FFRAGANT, s. An assistant; a favourer; one who 
concurs with.—Hoping to find them more friends and 
suffragants to the virtues and modesty of sober women, than 
enemies to their beauty. Bp. Taylor. 
To SU'FFRAGATE, v. n. [suffragor , Lat.] To vote 
with; to agree in voice with.—No tradition could universally 
prevail, unless there were some common congruity of some¬ 
what inherent in nature, which suits and suffragates with it, 
and closeth with it. Hale. 
SU'FFRAGATOR, s. [suffragator, Lat.] A favourer; 
one that helps with his vote.—The Synod in the Low 
Countries is held at Dort; the most of their suffragators are 
already assembled. Bp. of Chester to Ahp. Usher. 
SU'FFRAGE, s. [suffrage, Fr., suffragium, Lat.] Vote; 
voice given in a controverted point.—The fairest of our island 
dare not commit their cause to the suffrage of those who 
most partially adore them. Addison. —United voice of per¬ 
sons in public prayer.—The suffrages next after the Creed 
shall stand thus. Comm. Pr. —Aid; assistance: a Latinism. 
—They make little account of indulgences, especially of 
those which are to be applied to the souls in purgatory by 
way of suffrage. Dorrington. 
SUFFRA'GINOUS, adj. [suffrago, Lat.] Belonging to 
the knee-joint of beasts.—In elephants, the bought of the 
forelegs is not directly backward, but laterally, and some¬ 
what inward; but the hough or suffraginous flexure behind, 
rather outward. Brown. 
SUFFRU'TICOUS, adj. Being of a structure partly 
woody and partly herbaceous: as thyme. 
SUFFUMIGA'TION, s. [suffumigation, Fr., sujfumigo, 
Lat.] Operation of fumes raised by fire.—If the matter be 
so gross as it yields not to remedies, it may be attempted by 
suffumigation. Wiseman. 
SUFFU'MIGE, s. [suffumigo, Lat.] A medical fume. 
Not used. —For external means, drying suffumiges or 
smoaks are prescribed with good success; they are usually 
composed out of frankincense, myrrh, and pitch. Harvey. 
To SUFFU'SE, v. a. [stiffusus, Lat.] To spread over 
with something expansible, as with a vapour or a tincture. 
Suspicions, and fantastical surmise, 
And jealousy suffus'd with jaundice in her eyes. Dryden. 
SUFFU'SION, s. [suffusion, Fr.] The act of over¬ 
spreading with any thing. That which is suffused or spread. 
A drop serene hath quench’d their orbs, 
Or dim suffusion veil’d. Milton. 
The disk of Phoebus, when he climbs on high. 
Appears at first but as a bloodshot eye; 
And when his chariot downward draws to bed, 
His ball is with the same suffusion red. Dryden. 
SUG, s. [from sugo, Lat. to stick.'] A small kind of 
worm.—Many have sticking on them sugs, or trout-lice, 
which is a kind of worm like a clove or pin, with a big 
head, and sticks close to him, and sucks his moisture. 
Walton. 
SUGACHI, a river of Quito, in the province of Mainas, 
which runs south-south-east, and enters the Pastaza. 
SU'GAR, s. [sucre, Fr. It has been traced to the Arabic 
succar, which is formed from the Pers. schachar.] The 
native salt of the sugar- cane, obtained by the expressioir 
and evaporation of its juice. Quincy. —All the blood of 
Zelmane’s body stirred in her, as wine will do when sugar 
is hastily put into it. Sidney. —Any thing proverbially 
sweet. 
Your fair discourse has been as sugar. 
Making the hard way sweet and delectable. Shakspeare. 
A chymical dry crystallization.— Sugar of lead, though 
made of that insipid metal, and sour salt of vinegar, has in 
it a sweetness surpassing that, of common sugar. Boyle. 
To SU'GAR, v. a. To impregnate or season with 
sugar. 
SUG 
Short thick sobs 
In panting murmurs, still’d out of her breast. 
That ever-bubbling spring, the sugar'd nest 
Of her delicious soul, that there does lie. 
Bathing in streams of liquid melody. Crashaw. 
To sweeten. 
His glosing sire his errand gaily said. 
And sugar'd speeches whisper’d in mine ear. Fairfax. 
SUGAR CREEK, a river of the United States, in Penn¬ 
sylvania, which runs east into the east branch of the Susque¬ 
hanna, about 6 miles above Tawandee Creek. 
SUGAR CREEK, a township of the United States, in 
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. Population 1113. 
SUGAR CREEK, a township of the United States, in 
Venango county, Pennsylvania. Population 461. 
SUGAR CREEK, a township of the United States, in 
Greene county, Ohio. Population 1826. 
SUGAR CREEK, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which joins the Little Miami above Waynesville. 
SUGAR HILL, a ragged eminence which overlooks and 
commands the old fortifications of Ticonderoga, in the 
United States, where the waters of Lake George flow into 
Lake Champlain, opposite Mount Independence. 
SUGAR ISLAND, an island in the strait of St. Mary, 
which connects lakes Superior and Huron. It is long and 
narrow, bending towards the north in the form of a crescent, 
and causing an enlargement of waters between it and the 
continental coast. 
SUGAR LOAF, a cape of Benguela, on the western coast 
of Africa. Lat 12. 5. S. 
SUGAR LOAF, a township of the United States, in Lu¬ 
zerne county, Pennsylvania. Population 282. 
SUGAR LOAF, a mountain of the island of Cuba; 55 
miles north-east of St. Jago. 
SUGAR LOAF BAY, a bay on the north-east coast of 
the island of Juan Fernandez. 
SUGAR LOAF HILL, an eminence which serves as a 
landmark, on the north coast of Lake Erie. 
SUGAR LOAF POINT, a projection on the east coast of 
New Holland, in Lat. 32.29. S. 
SUGAR RIVER, a river of the United States, in the 
territory of Michigan, which runs into Saganaum bav. 
SUGAR RIVER, a river of the United States, in New 
Hampshire, which runs from the Sunapee lake into the 
Connecticut, in Clermont. 
SUGAR RIVER, a river of Veragua, which runs into the 
Bay of Honduras. 
SUGARCA'NDY, s. Sugar candied, or crystallized._ 
One poor pennyworth of sugar-candy. Shakspeare. 
SU'GARY, adj. Sweet; tasting of sugar. 
With the sugary sweet thereof allure 
Chaste ladies’ ears to phantasies impure. Spenser. 
^ Fond of sugar or sweet things .—Sugary palates. Hist. 
SUGAT, a town of Asia Minor, in the pachalic of Bursa, 
supposed to occupy the position of the ancient Tottarium.’ 
The houses, like most of those in the Turkish towns, are built 
of wood and mud, in general two stories high, with project¬ 
ing verandahs, and roofed with a common red tile, which 
almost always admits the rain. It is remarkable for the 
tomb of Ali Osman, held in high respect by the natives. 
SUGER, Abbot of St. Denis, and prime minister of 
France under Louis the Young, was born in the year 1082. 
He was employed by Louis le Gros, who conferred on him 
the abbey of St. Denis, and employed him in a variety of 
concerns. When Louis the Young, successor to Louis le 
Gros, set out on a crusade to the Holy Land in ] 147, he 
nominated Suger regent of the kingdom. In this high station 
he acted with wisdom and integrity, and adopted measures 
for supplying the king with money, without burdening his 
subjects. His works were a “ Life of Louis le Gros,” “°Me- 
moirs of his Administration at the Abbey of St. Denis,” &c. 
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