suent

See also: sünt

English

Etymology

See suant.

Adjective

suent (comparative more suent, superlative most suent)

  1. Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth.
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods, (1962) The New American Library, A Signet Classic, 16th printing, page 27:
      Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its sommersets. ...Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with éclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 suent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

suent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of suer
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of suer

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

suent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of suō
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