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5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] Milton.
Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical. -- Succession duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.] -- Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation.
Suc*ces"sion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
Suc*ces"sion*ist, n. A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
Suc*ces"sive (?), a. [Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.] 1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down.
Prior.
2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] Shak.
Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5.
Suc*ces"sive*ly, adv. In a successive manner.
The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet.
Sir I. Newton.
Suc*ces"sive*ness, n. The quality or state of being successive.
Suc*cess"less (?), a. Having no success.
Successless all her soft caresses prove.
Pope.
-- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
Suc*ces"sor (?), n. [OE. successour, OF. successur, successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See Succeed.] One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. Chaucer.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists.
Blackstone.
Suc*cid"u*ous (?), a. [L. succiduus, fr. succidere to fall under.] Ready to fall; falling. [R.]
Suc*cif"er*ous (?), a. [L. succus, sucus, juice, sap + -ferous.] Producing or conveying sap.
Suc`cin*am"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Suc`cin*am"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.
Suc"ci*nate (?), n. [L. succinum, sucinum, amber, from succus, sucus, juice, sap: cf. F. succinate.] (Chem.) A salt of succinic acid.
Suc*cinct" (?), a. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture.] 1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
His habit fit for speed succinct.
Milton.
2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
Roscommon.
The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.
South.
Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse.
-- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. -- Suc*cinct"ness, n.
Suc*cin"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. succinique. See Succinate.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C&?;H&?;.(CO&?;H)&?;, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
Suc`cin*im"ide (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.
Suc"ci*nite (?), n. [Cf. F. succinite.] (Min.) (a) Amber. (b) A garnet of an amber color.
Suc"ci*nous (?), a. [From L. succinum amber.] Succinic. [R.]
Suc`cin*u"rate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of succinuric acid.
Suc`cin*u"ric (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.
Suc"cin*yl (?), n. [Succinic + -yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Suc*cise" (?), a. [See Succision.] (Bot.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.
Suc*ci"sion (?), n. [L. succisio, fr. succidere, succisum, to cut away below, sub under + caedere to cut.] The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off. [R.]
Suc"cor (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Succoring.] [OE. socouren, OF. sucurre, soucourre, secorre, F. secourir, L. succurrere, succursum, to run under, run to the aid of, help, succor; sub under + currere to run. See Current.] To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city. [Written also succour.]
He is able to succor them that are tempted.
Heb. ii. 18.
Syn. -- To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort.
Suc"cor, n. [OE. socours, sucurs, OF. sucurs, socors, secors, F. secours, L. succursus, fr. L. succurrere. See Succor, v. t.] 1. Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. "We beseech mercy and succor." Chaucer.
My noble father . . . Flying for succor to his servant Bannister.
Shak.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
This mighty succor, which made glad the foe.
Dryden.
Suc"cor*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.
Suc"cor*er (?), n. One who affords succor; a helper.
Suc"cor*less, a. Destitute of succor. Thomson.
Suc"co*ry (?), n. [Corrupted from chicory.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.
Suc"co*tash (?), n. [Narragansett Indian m'sickquatash corn boiled whole.] Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]
Suc`co*teague" (?), n. (Zoöl.) The squeteague.
||Suc"cu*ba (?), n.; pl. Succubæ (#). [NL., fr. L. succubare to lie ||under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf. L. succuba, succubo, one ||who lies under another.] A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.
Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succubæ some call.
Mir. for Mag.
Suc"cu*bine (?), a. Of or pertaining to succuba.
Suc"cu*bous (?), a. [See Succuba.] (Bot.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
||Suc"cu*bus (?), n.; pl. Succubi (#). [See Succuba.] 1. A demon or ||fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual ||intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
2. (Med.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.
Suc"cu*la (?), n. [L. sucula a winch, windlass, capstan.] (Mach.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
{ Suc"cu*lence (?), Suc"cu*len*cy (?), } n. [See Succulent.] The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.
Suc"cu*lent (?), a. [L. succulentus, suculentus, fr. succus, sucus, juice; perhaps akin to E. suck: cf. F. succulent.] Full of juice; juicy.
Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.
Suc"cu*lent*ly, adv. In a succulent manner.
Suc"cu*lous (?), a. Succulent; juicy. [R.]
Suc*cumb" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succumbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Succumbing.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Suc*cum"bent (?), a. [L. succumbens, p. pr.] Submissive; yielding. [R.] Howell.
Suc*cur"sal (?), a. [Cf. F. succursale. See Succor, n. & v. t.] Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. [R.]
Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents.
Milman.
||Suc"cus (?), n.; pl. Succi (&?;). (Med.) The expressed juice of a ||plant, for medicinal use.
||Succus entericus (&?;). [NL., literally, juice of the intestines.] ||(Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the ||glands of Lieberkühn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is ||somewhat doubtful.
Suc`cus*sa"tion (?), n. [L. succussare to jolt, v. intens. fr. succutere, succussum, to fling up from below, to toss up; sub under + quatere to shake.] 1. A trot or trotting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. A shaking; succussion.
Suc*cus"sion (?), n. [L. succussio, from succutere: cf. F. succussion. See Succussation.] The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
Suc*cus"sive (?), a. Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.
Such (?), a. [OE. such, sich, sech, sik, swich, swilch, swulch, swilc, swulc, AS. swelc, swilc, swylc; akin to OFries. selik, D. zulk, OS. sulic, OHG. sulih, solih, G. solch, Icel. slkr, OSw. salik, Sw. slik, Dan. slig, Goth. swaleiks; originally meaning, so shaped. √192. See So, Like, a., and cf. Which.] 1. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.
And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun.
Chaucer.
His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping.
Macaulay.
The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held.
2. Having the particular quality or character specified.
That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself.
Milton.
3. The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. "[It] hath such senses as we have." Shak.
4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived.
Daniel.
To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.
James iv. 13.
Such is used pronominally. "He was the father of such as dwell in tents." Gen. iv. 20. "Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained." Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. "Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed." De Foe.
Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc.
Macaulay.
Such is used emphatically, without the correlative.
Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life.
Shak.
Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many.
Such and such, or Such or such, certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place shall be my camp." 2 Kings vi. 8. "Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action." South. -- Such like or character, of the like kind.
And many other such like things ye do.
Mark vii. 8.
Su`cho*spon"dy*lous (?), a. [Gr. &?; a crocodile + &?; a vertebra.] (Zoöl.) Having dorsal vertebræ with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.
Such"wise` (?), adv. In a such a manner; so.
Suck (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s&?;can, s&?;gan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s&?;gan, Icel. s&?;ga, sj&?;ga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.] 1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
4. To draw or drain.
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
Thomson.
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
Dryden.
To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption.
Suck, v. i. 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
Shak.
2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.
Bacon.
Suck, n. 1. The act of drawing with the mouth.
2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. Shak.
3. A small draught. [Colloq.] Massinger.
4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]
Suck"an*hock (?), n. [Of American Indian origin.] A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
Suck"a*tash (?), n. See Succotash. Bartlett.
Suck"en (?), n. [See Socome, Soc.] (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
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Suck"er (sk"r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl.
3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle.
4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
7. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.
Fuller.
9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]
11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.
Suck"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering.] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Suck"er, v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Suck"et (?), n. [Cf. Suck, v. t., Succades.] A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.
Suck"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A sucker fish.
Suck"ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing.
Thackeray.
Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. -- Sucking stomach (Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.
Suc"kle (?), n. A teat. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
Suc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling (?).] [Freq. of suck.] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Addison.
The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier.
Shak.
They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom.
Landor.
Suc"kle, v. i. To nurse; to suck. [R.]
Suc"kler (?), n. (Zoöl.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Suck"ling (?), n. [OE. sokeling. See Suck, v. t.] 1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
2. A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.
Su"crate (?), n. (Chem.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
||Su"cre (?), n. A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.
Su"crose` (?), n. [F. sucre sugar. See Sugar.] (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.
Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, C12H22O11. It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar (dextrose and levulose), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a disaccharate. Sucrose possesses at once the properties of an alcohol and a ketone, and also forms compounds (called sucrates) analogous to salts. Cf. Sugar.
Suc"tion (?), n. [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See Suck, v. t.] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. -- Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. -- Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of Pump.
||Suc*to"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Suction.] (Zoöl.) 1. An order of ||Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular ||processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are ||usually stalked.
2. Same as Rhizocephala.
Suc*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. sugere, suctum, to suck.] 1. (Zoöl.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
2. (Zoöl.) Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
Suc*to"ri*an (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the Suctoria.
Suc*to"ri*ous (?), a. Suctorial. [R.]
||Su*dam"i*na (?), n. pl, sing. Sudamen (&?;). [NL. sudamen, - inis, ||fr. sudare to sweat. See Sweat.] (Med.) Minute vesicles surrounded by ||an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.
||Su*da"ri*um (?), n. [L., a handkerchief.] (Eccl.) The handkerchief ||upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait ||miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the ||crucifixion.
Su"da*ry (?), n. [L. sudarium, fr. sudare to sweat. See Sweat.] A napkin or handkerchief. [Obs. or R.] Wyclif. R. Browning.
Su*da"tion (?), n. [L. sudatio, fr. sudare to sweat: cf. F. sudation.] A sweating. [Obs.]
||Su`da*to"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Sudatoria (#). [L.] A sudatory. ||Dunglison.
Su"da*to*ry (?), a. [L. sudatorius, fr. sudare to sweat: cf. F. sudatoire. See Sweat.] Sweating; perspiring.
Su"da*to*ry, n.; pl. Sudatories (#). [L. sudatorium.] A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities.
Evelyn.
Sud"den (?), a. [OE. sodian, sodein, OF. sodain, sudain, F. soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p. p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, secretly + ire to go. See Issue, and cf. Subitaneous.] 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy. "O sudden wo!" Chaucer. "For fear of sudden death." Shak.
Sudden fear troubleth thee.
Job xxii. 10.
2. Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Never was such a sudden scholar made.
Shak.
The apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye.
Milton.
3. Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn. -- Unexpected; unusual; abrupt; unlooked-for.
-- Sud"den*ly, adv. -- Sud"den*ness, n.
Sud"den, adv. Suddenly; unexpectedly. [R.]
Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
Milton.
Sud"den, n. An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
All of a sudden, On a sudden, Of a sudden, sooner than was expected; without the usual preparation; suddenly.
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost!
Milton.
He withdrew his opposition all of a sudden.
Thackeray.
Sud"den*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. soudaineté.] Suddenness; a sudden. [Scot.]
On a suddenty, on a sudden. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Su"dor*al (?), a. [L. sudor.] Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.
Su`dor*if"er*ous (?), a. [L. sudor sweat + -ferous.] (Physiol.) Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.
Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.
Su`dor*if"ic (?), a. [L. sudor sweat (akin to E. sweat) + facere to make.] Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n. A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Su`dor*ip"a*rous (?), a. [L. sudor sweat + parere to produce.] (Physiol.) Same as Sudoriferous.
Su"dor*ous (?), a. [L. sudorus, fr. sudor sweat.] Consisting of sweat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
||Su"dra (?), n. [Skr. ç&?;dra.] The lowest of the four great castes ||among the Hindoos. See Caste. [Written also Soorah, Soodra, and ||Sooder.]