SUBURBS, (Fauxbourgs, Fr.) Buildings without the walls of a city.
SUCCESSION of rank. Relative gradation according to the dates of commissions, or the regulations established.
SUCCOUR, in war. Assistance in men, stores, or ammunition.
SUD, Fr. This word is variously used by the French. It signifies in the sea language the south wind and the southern regions; and it signifies in an absolute sense, one of the four cardinal winds which blows from the south. Hence Le Sud, the south wind. Sud est ou sud ouest, south east or south west.
SUISSES, Fr. The Swiss soldiers who were in the pay of France previous to the 10th of August 1792, were generally so called. It was also a general term to signify stipendiary troops. Hence point d’argent, point de suisses! which agrees with our cant phrase—No pay, no soldier.
SUITE, or SERIES, Fr. This term signifies generally any regular collection and successive distribution of things.
Officiers à la SUITE, Fr. Supernumerary officers attached to a regiment, &c. during the monarchy of France, who were not required to do duty with it.
SULPHUR, or brimstone, a volcanic mineral essential in making gunpowder and artificial fire-works.
SULTAN or SULTAUN, Ind. King. The title which was assumed by Tippoo Saib, chief of the Mysore country. Hence called Tippoo Sultaun.
SULTAN shirki, Ind. King of the east.