Part 943

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.