| succade | 1. A sweetmeat. 2. Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. Succade gourd. <botany> Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable. Origin: L. Succus, sucus, juice: cf. F. Succade a sugarbox. Cf. Sucket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| succagogue | 1. Stimulating the flow of juice. 2. An agent having such an effect. Origin: L. Succus, juice, + G. Agogos, leading (05 Mar 2000) |
| succedaneous | 1. Relating to a succedaneum. 2. Relating to the permanent or second teeth that replace the deciduous or primary teeth. Origin: see succedaneum (05 Mar 2000) |
| succedaneous dentition | One of the 32 teeth belonging to the second or permanent dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the seventeenth to the twenty-third year, when the last of the wisdom teeth appears. Synonym: dens permanens, dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| succedaneous tooth | One of the 32 teeth belonging to the second or permanent dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the seventeenth to the twenty-third year, when the last of the wisdom teeth appears. Synonym: dens permanens, dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| succedaneum | Origin: NL. See Succedaneous. <medicine> One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; specifically . A remedy used as a substitute for another. "In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope." (Walpole) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| succeed | 1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; often with to. "If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership." (Sir M. Hale) "Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!" (Milton) 2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. "No woman shall succeed in Salique land." (Shak) 3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. 4. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded. "It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition." (Dryden) "Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English." (Dryden) 5. To go under cover. "Will you to the cooler cave succeed!" (Dryden) Synonym: To follow, pursue. See Follow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| succentor | A subchanter. Origin: LL, an accompanier in singing, fr. Succinere to sing, to accompany; sub under, after + canere to sing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| succenturiate | In anatomy succenturiate means substituting for or accessory to an organ. For example, see succenturiate placenta. Succenturiate placenta: an extra placenta separate from the main placenta. In anatomy succenturiate means substituting for or accessory to an organ. In this case, a succenturiate placenta is an accessory placenta. (12 Dec 1998) |
| succenturiate placenta | An extra placenta separate from the main placenta. In anatomy succenturiate means substituting for or accessory to an organ. In this case, a succenturiate placenta is an accessory placenta. (12 Dec 1998) |
| successary | Succession. "My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood." (Beau. & Fl) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| successful | Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. "Welcome, nephews, from successful wars." (Shak) Synonym: Happy, prosperous, fortunate, auspicious, lucky. See Fortunate. Success"fully, Success"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| succession | 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. "He was in the succession to an earldom." (Macaulay) 3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." 4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc, held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. "You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark." (Shak) "The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession." (Macaulay) 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. Apostolical succession. See Rotation of crops, under Rotation. Origin: L. Successio: cf. F. Succession. See Succeed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| successionist | A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially, one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| successive | 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. Successive induction. <mathematics> See Induction. Origin: Cf. F. Successif. See Succeed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |