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ford county, Maine; 170 miles north-north-east of Boston. 
Population 611. 
SUMNER, a county of the United States, in the north 
side of West Tennessee. Population 13,792, including 3734 
slaves. The chief town is Gallatin. 
SUMNUM, a small town ofPersia, in the western part of 
the province of Korassan. It is the capital of a rich district, 
containing fifty villages, and bounded on the north by Mount 
Elbourz, and on the south by the Great Salt desert. 
SUMOOKGUR, an ancient fortress of Bengal, situated 
on the eastern bank of the Hoogly river, about27 miles north 
of Calcutta, but now in ruins. There is no tradition by whom 
it was built. 
SUMOROKOF (Alexander), the founder of the Russian 
theatre, was the son of Peter Sumorokof, a Russian noble¬ 
man, and born at Moscow in the year 1727. And under 
the patronage of count Ivan Shuvelof, he was introduced to 
the empress Elizabeth. At the age of 29 he composed his 
first tragedy, intitled “ Koref.” This was exhibited at the 
court-theatre, and the applause it gained induced the writer 
to proceed in the same career, till he had produced nine 
tragedies, several comedies, and some operas. In his 
tragedies, Racine was his model; and though he fell short 
of the perfection of his exemplar, he was in many instances 
a successful imitator of his excellencies. His comedies pos¬ 
sessed humour, but were deficient in purity. Sumorokof, 
also wrote love songs, idyllia, fables, satires, anacreontics, 
elegies, versions of the Psalms, and Pindaric odes. He died 
at Moscow in October, 1777, in the 51st year of his age. 
SU'MPTER, s. [somnier , Fr.; somaro, Ital.] A horse 
that carries the clothes or furniture. 
Return with her! 
Persuade me rather to be a slave and sampler 
To this detested groom. Shakspeare. 
SUMPTER, a district of South Carolina, east of the Santee. 
Population 19,054, including 11,538 slaves. 
SU'MPTION, s. [sumptus, Lat.] The act of taking. 
Not in use .—The sumption of the mysteries does all in a 
capable subject. Bp. Taylor. 
SU'MPTUARY, adj. [samptuarius, Lat.] Relating to 
expence; regulating the cost of life,—To remove that ma¬ 
terial cause of sedition, which is want and poverty in the 
estate, serveth the opening and well-balancing of trade, the 
banishing of idleness, the repressing of waste and excess of 
sumptuary laws. Bacon. 
SUMPTUO'SITY, s. Expensiveness; costliness. Not 
used. —He added sumptuosity, invented jewels of gold and 
stone, and some engines for the war. Ralegh. 
SU'MPTUOUS, adj. [sumptuosus, from sumpsus, Lat.] 
Costly; expensive; splendid.—We see how most Christians 
stood then affected, how joyful they were to behold the 
sumptuous stateliness of houses built unto God’s glory. 
Hooker. 
SU'MPTUOUSLY, adv. Expensively ; with great cost. 
This monument five hundred years hath stood, 
Which I have sumptuously re-edified. Shakspeare. 
Splendidly.—A good employment will make you live to¬ 
lerably in London, or sumptuously here. Swift. 
SU'MPTUOUSNESS, s. Expensiveness; costliness.—I 
will not fall out with those that can reconcile sumptuousness 
and charity. Boyle. 
SUMRAH, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Tripoli, 
the ancient Simysa ; 18 miles north-east of Tripoli. 
SUMSKOE-OSTROG, a small town of the north-west of 
European Russia, in the government of Olonetz, at the 
mouth of the river Sura; 70 miles south-by-east of Kemi. 
Population 1100. 
SUMTERSVILLE, a post village of the United States in 
Claremont county. South Carolina 
SUMY, a large town in the interior of European Russia, 
in the government of Charkov, on the river Psol. If is sur¬ 
rounded with a wall and ditch, and farther defended by an 
old citadel. Like other Russian towns, it is built chiefly of 
wood, and wretchedly paved; but it contains several chari¬ 
table institutions, and public depots and warehouses, is the 
chief place of a circle, and has 11,000 inhabitants. Agri¬ 
culture, in one shape or another, whether gardening, tillage, 
or pasturage, forms the chief employment of the inhabitants 
of this town and neighbourhood, tor the only manufacture is 
the distilling of spirits. The traffic of the place is consid¬ 
erable, but transactions on a large scale are, in a great mea¬ 
sure, confined to four annual fairs, where a number both of 
Greek and Russian merchants attend for the disposal of 
foreign commodities; 90 miles north-west of Charkov. Lat. 
50. 54. N. long. 35. 6. E. 
SUN, s. [punna, punne, Sax.] The luminary that makes 
the day. 
Doth beauty keep which never sun can bum. 
Nor storms do turn ? Sidney. 
A suniiy place; a place eminently warmed by the sun.— 
Yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade. Milton .—Any 
thing eminently splendid.—I will never consent to put out 
the sun of sovereignty to posterity, and all succeeding kings. 
King Charles.—Under the Sun. In the world. A pro¬ 
verbial expression. —There is no new thing under the sun. 
Keel. 
To SUN, v. a. To isolate; to expose to the sun; to 
warm in the sun. 
The cry to shady delve him brought at last. 
Where Mammon earst did sun his treasury. Spenser. 
SUNAPER, a lake of the United States, in New Hamp¬ 
shire, in the township of Fisherfield, Wendell, and New 
London. It is 11 miles long, and 1| broad. Little Suna- 
pee; 2 miles long, lies north-east of it, in New London. 
SUNAPEE, a mountain of the United States, in New 
Hampshire, south of Sunapee lake. 
SUNART, Loch, a navigable inlet of the sea, between 
the counties of Argyle and Inverness, in Scotland, about 
20 miles long, and from 1J to 2 miles broad. It is also the 
name given to the district bordering on the loch. 
SU'N-BEAM, s. [junnebeam. Sax.] The old poets have 
usually placed the accent on the last syllable.] Ray of the 
sun. 
The Roman eagle, wing’d 
From the spungy south to this part of the west. 
Vanish’d in the sun-beams. Shakspeare. 
SU'N-BEAT, part. adj. Shone on fiercely by the sun. 
Its length runs level with the Atlantic main. 
And wearies fruitful Nilus to convey 
His sun-beat waters by so long a way. Dryden . 
SUNB1NGEN TARN, or Lake, a small lake of England, 
in Westmoreland, which abounds with eels, and in which 
are bred vast quantities of red trout, like char. The adjoining 
moors abound with grouse and moor game. 
SU'N-BRIGHT, adj. Resembling the sun in brightness. 
Gathering up himself out of the mire, 
With his uneven wings did fiercely fall 
Upon his sun-bright shield. Spenser. 
SU'N-BURNING, s. The effect of the sun upon the face. 
—If thou cant love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face 
is not worth sun-burning, let thine eye be thy cook. Shak¬ 
speare 
SU'N BURNT, part. adj. Tanned; discoloured by the 
sun. 
Where such radiant lights have shone. 
No wonder if her cheeks be grown 
Sun-burnt with lustre of her own. Cleveland. 
Scorched by the sun. 
How many nations of the sun-burnt soil 
Does Niger bless; how many drink the Nile ? Blackmore. 
SUNBURY, a parish of England, in Middlesex, situated 
on the banks of the Thames; 18 miles west-south-west of 
St. Paul’s, London. Population 1655. 
SUNBURY, a borough and post township of the United 
States, and capital of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, 
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