Suckfist (Lord), defendant in the great Pantagruelian lawsuit, known as “Lord Busqueue v. Lord Suckfist,” in which the plaintiff and defendant pleaded in person. After hearing the case, the bench declared, “We have not understood one single circumstance of the matter on either side.” But Pantagruel gave judgment, and as both plaintiff and defendant left the court fully persuaded that the verdict was in his own favor, they were both highly satisfied, “a thing without parallel in the annals of the law.”--Rabelais, Pantagruel, ii. 11-13 (1533).
Suddlechop (Benjamin), “the most renowned barber in all Fleet Street.” A thin, half-starved creature.
Dame Ursula Suddlechop, the barber’s wife. “She could contrive interviews for lovers, and relieve frail fair ones of the burden of a guilty passion.” She had been a pupil of Mrs. Turner, and learnt of her the secret of making yellow starch, and two or three other prescriptions more lucrative still. The dame was scarcely 40 years of age, of full form and comely features, with a joyous, good-humored expression.
Dame Ursula had acquaintances ... among the quality, and maintained her intercourse ... partly by driving a trade in perfumes, essences, pomades, head-gears from France, not to mention drugs of various descriptions, chiefly for the use of ladies, and partly by other services, more or less connected with the esoteric branches of her profession.--Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, viii. (time, James I.).
Suds (Mrs.), any washerwoman or laundress.
Suicides from Books.
Cleom´brotos, the Academic philosopher, killed himself after reading Plato’s Phædon, that he might enjoy the happiness of the future life, so enchantingly described.
Fräulein von Lassberg drowned herself in spleen, after reading Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther.
Sulin-Sifad´da, one of the two steeds of Cuthullin, general of the Irish tribes. The name of the other was Dusronnal.
Before the right side of the car is seen the snorting horse; the high-maned, broad-breasted, proud, wide-leaping, strong steed of the hill. Loud and resounding is his hoof; the spreading of his mane above is like a stream of smoke on a ridge of rocks. Bright are the sides of his steed. His name is Sulin-Sifadda.--Ossian, Fingal, i.