Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
(2) - Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.

(1) - Sutural (a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.
(2) - Sutural (a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

(1) - Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
(2) - Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
(3) - Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
(4) - Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
(5) - Suture (n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
(6) - Suture (n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.
(7) - Suture (n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
(8) - Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.