Part 947

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.