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S ;cted.— Suspectless have I travell’d all the town through. 
eaum. and FI. 
To SUSPE'ND, v. a. [suspcndre, Fr.; suspendo, Lat.J 
To hang; to make to hang by any thing. 
As ’twixt two equal armies, fate 
Suspends uncertain victory; 
Our souls, which to advance our state. 
Were gone out, hung ’twixt her and me. Donne. 
To make to depend upon.—God hath in the Scripture 
suspended the promise of eternal life upon this condition, 
that without obedience and holiness of life no man shall ever 
see the Lord. Ti/lotson. —To interrupt; to make to stop 
for a time. 
The harmony 
Suspended hell, and took with ravishment 
The thronging audience. Milton. 
To delay; to hinder from proceeding.— Suspend your 
indignation against my brother, till you can derive from him 
better testimony of his intent. Shakspeare.— To keep un¬ 
determined.—A man may suspend his choice from being 
determined for or against the thing proposed, till he has 
examined whether it be really of a nature to make him happy 
or no. Locke. —To debar for a time from the execution of 
an office or enjoyment of a revenue. 
SUSPE'NDER, One who suspends or delays.—I may 
add the cautelousness of suspenders and not forward con¬ 
cludes. Mount agu. 
SUSPE'NSE, s. [suspensus, Lat.] Uncertainty; delay 
of certainty or determination ; indetermination. 
Ten days the prophet in suspense remain’d. 
Would no man’s fate pronounce; at last constrain’d 
By Ithacus, he solemnly design’d 
Me for the sacrifice. Denham. 
Act of withholding the judgment.—Whatever necessity de¬ 
termines to the pursuit of real bliss, the same necessity esta¬ 
blishes suspense, deliberation, and scrutiny, whether its 
satisfaction misleads from our true happiness. Locke. —Stop 
in the midst of two opposites. 
For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain 
A cool suspense from pleasure or from pain. Pope. 
SUSPE'NSE, adj. [suspensus, Lat.] Held from pro¬ 
ceeding. 
The great light of day yet wants to run 
Much of his race, though steep, suspense in heaven 
Held by thy voice. Milton. 
Held in doubt; held in expectation. 
This said, he sat; and expectation held 
His looks s uspense, awaiting who appear’d 
To second or oppose. Milton. 
SUSPENSION, s. Act of making to hang on any thing. 
—True and formal crucifixion is often named by the general 
word suspension. Pearson. —Act of making to depend on 
any thing. Act of delaying. 
Had we had time to pray. 
With thousand vows and tears we should have sought. 
That sad decree’s suspension to have wrought. Waller. 
Act of withholding or balancing the judgment.—The mode 
of the will, which answers to dubitation, may be called sus¬ 
pension ; and that which in the fantastick will is obstinacy, 
is constancy in the intellectual. Grew. —Interruption; tem 
porary cessation.—Nor was any thing done for the better ad¬ 
justing things in the time of that suspension, but every 
thing left in the same state of unconcernedness as before. 
Clarendon. —Temporary privation of an office: as, “ the 
clerk incurred suspension." 
SUSPENSIVE, adj. Doubtful. An old and elegant 
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Psyche, snatch’d from danger’s desperate jaws 
Into the arms of this illustrious lover. 
The truth of her condition hardly knows. 
But in suspensive thoughts awhile doth hover. Beaumont. 
SUSPENSORY, adj. [suspensus, Lat.] Suspending; 
belonging to that by which a thing hangs.—There are several 
parts peculiar to brutes which are wanting in man, as the se¬ 
venth, or suspensory muscle of the eye. Bay. —Doubtful. 
—This moves sober pens unto suspensory and timorous as¬ 
sertions. Brown. 
SU'SPICABLE, adj. That may be suspected; liable to 
suspicion.—I look upon these two last cures as done out of 
suspicable principles and upon extravagant objects. More. 
SUSPI'CION, s. [suspicion , Fr.; suspicio, Latin.] The 
act of suspecting; imagination of something ill without 
proof. 
Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes ; 
For treason is but trusted like a fox, 
Who ne’er so tame so cherish’d and lock’d up, 
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Shakspeare. 
SUSPI'CIOUS, adj. [suspiciosus, Lat.] Inclined to 
suspect; inclined to imagine ill without proof.—Nature 
itself, after it has done an injury, will for ever be suspicious, 
and no man can love the person he suspects. South. —Indi¬ 
cating suspicion or fear.—A wise man will find us to be 
rogues by our faces: we have a suspicious, fearful, con¬ 
strained countenance, often turning and slinking through 
narrow lanes. Swift. —Liable to suspicion; giving reason 
to imagine ill. 
I spy a black suspicious threatening cloud, 
That will encounter with our glorious sun. Shakspeare. 
SUSPI'CIOUSLY, adv. With suspicion. So as to raise 
suspicion.—His guard entering the place, found Plangus with 
his sword in his hand, but not naked, but standing suspi¬ 
ciously enough, to one already suspicious. Sidney. 
SUSPI'CIOUSNESS, s. Tendency to suspicion.—To 
make my estate known seemed impossible, by reason of the 
suspiciousness of Miso, and my young mistress. Sidney. 
SUSPI'RAL, s. A spring of water passing underground 
towards a conduit or cistern; also, a breathing-hole or venti¬ 
duct. Chambers. 
SUSPI'RATION, s. [suspiratio, from suspiro, Lat.] 
Sigh; act of fetching the breath deep. 
Not customary suits of solemn black. 
Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath 
That can denote me truly. Shakspeare. 
To SUSPI'RE, v. n. [suspiro, Lat.] To sigh; to fetch 
the breath deep. To breathe. 
By his gates of breath 
There lies a downy feather which stirs not: 
Did he suspire, that light and weightless down 
Perforce must move. Shakspeare. 
SUSPI'RED, part. adj. Wished for; desired earnestly: 
a latinism. —O glorious morning, wherein was born the ex¬ 
pectation of nations; and wherein the long suspired Re¬ 
deemer of the world did, as his prophets had cried, rent the 
heavens, and come down in the vesture of humanity! 
Wotton. 
SUSQUEHANNAH, a county of the United States, on 
the north side of Pennsylvania, bounded north by New 
York, east by Wayne county, south by Luzerne county, 
and west by Ontario county. Chief town, Montrose. 
SUSQUEHANNAH, a river of the United States, and 
the largest river of Pennsylvania, which is formed by two 
branches that come from the east and west. The east rises 
in Otsego lake. New York, and the west in Huntingdon 
county, Pennsylvania. They unite at Northumberland. 
The river then runs south-east into the head of the Chesa- 
peak, in Maryland. It is 1 j- mile wide at its mouth, but is 
navigable only 5 miles. The Susquehannah was surveyed 
in 1817 by commissioners appointed by Pennsylvania, who 
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