suage

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: swage

Verb

1. (obsolete) To assuage.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 549 to 559.

     […] Anon they move / In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mode / Of flutes and soft recorders — such as raised / To height of noblest temper heroes old / Arming to battle, and instead of rage / Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved / With dread of death to fligh or foul retreat; / Nor wanting power to mitigate and suage / With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase / Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain / From mortal or immortal minds. […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Gause, agues, gause, usage

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French

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French soue + -age, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  soca.

Noun

suage m (plural suages)

1. hem, border of a plate or cup

Etymology 2

From suer +‎ -age

Noun

suage m (plural suages)

1. humidity sweating from something

   S'il fait chaud et que tout soit fermé: on dit, il y a du suage, c'est le suage du bois.

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sieu +‎ -age, see suif

Noun

suage m (plural suages)

1. Application of suet or tallow

References

• “suage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• auges, sauge, usage

Further reading

• “suage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.