||Sty"lus, n. In a photograph, a pointed piece which is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record; also, a pointed piece which follows the indented record, vibrates the diaphragm, and reproduces the sound.
{ Sty"mie (?), n. Also Sti"my }. [Orig. uncertain.] (Golf) The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.
{ Sty"mie, v. t. Also Sti"my }. (Golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
Sub*ac"e*tate (?), n. (Chem.) An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent.
Sub*car"bon*ate (?), n. (Chem.) A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.
Sub*cel"lar (?), n. A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
Sub*con"scious*ness (?), n. The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
Su`ber*i*za"tion (?), n. (Bot.) Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.
Su"ber*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. -izing (?).] [L. suber cork.] (Bot.) To effect suberization of.
Sub*lim"i*nal (?), a. [Pref. sub- + L. limen threshold.] (Philos.) Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.
Sub`ma*rine" (?), n. A submarine boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. submergible submarine when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and submersible submarine when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks.
Sub*sist"ence De*part"ment. (Mil.) A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the Commissary Department.
Suck"er State. Illinois; -- a nickname.
Sudd (sd), n. [Ar. sadd barrier.] A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation. [Central Africa]
Suède (swd or swâd), n. [F., Sweden.] Swedish glove leather, -- usually made from lambskins tanned with willow bark. Also used adjectively; as, suède gloves.
Sug*ges"tion (?), n. (Hypnotism) The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.
Sug*gest"ive med"i*cine (?). Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
Sul"phite (?), n. A person who is spontaneous and original in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang] -- Sul*phit"ic (#), a. [Slang]
A sulphite is a person who does his own thinking, he is a person who has surprises up his sleeve. He is explosive.
Gelett Burgess.
Su*lu" (?), n. [Malay Suluk.] A member of the most prominent tribe of the Moro tribes, occupying the Sulu Archipelago; also, their language.
Su*ma"tra leaf (?). A thin, elastic, uniformly light- colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.
Su*me"ri*an (?), a. [Written also Sumirian.] Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language.
Su*me"ri*an, n. [Written also Sumirian.] A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer.
||Sum"mum bo"num (?). [L.] (Philos.) The supreme or highest good, -- referring to the object of human life.
Sun"cup` (?), n. A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia, syn. Œnothera, ovata) native of California.
Sun"dog`, n. (Meteor.) A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also dog and weathergaw.
Sun"down`er (?), n. A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
Francis Adams.
Sun"drops` (?), n. [Sun + drop.] (Bot.) Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Œnothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.
Sun"flow`er State. Kansas; a nickname.
Su`per*dread"nought` (?), n. See Dreadnought, above.
Su`per*heat" (?), v. t. To heat a liquid above its boiling point without converting it into vapor.
Su"per*man` (?), n. = Overman, above.
Su"per*tax` (?), n. [Super- + tax.] A tax in addition to the usual or normal tax; specif., in the United Kingdom, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds £3,000 when his total income exceeds £5,000.
Sur*charge", v. t. To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).
Sur*charge", n. [F.] 1. (Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
2. Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.
Sur"face load`ing. (Aëronautics) The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
Sur"face ten"sion. (Physics) That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.
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Sur*ren"der, n. (Insurance) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
||Sur"sum cor"da (?). [L. sursum upward + corda hearts.] (Eccl.) In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.