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Belonging to sutlers; engaged in the occupation of a sutler.
A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).
A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
A collection of such aphorisms.
A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
of Sutra
A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.
The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.
To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.
Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.
In a sutural manner.
Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
The stitch by which the parts are united.
The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.