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Contest; contention; strife. An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference. Addison.

To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Spenser. Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Deut. iii. 26.

Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content. [R.] Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee), Not to believe a thing. Beau. & Fl.

To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment. [Obs.] He could in little thing have suffisaunce. Chaucer.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

hallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

rmy or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents. [Obs.] King. Surprise party, a party of persons who assemble by mutual agreement, and without invitation, at the house of a common friend. [U.S.] Bartlett.

An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.

The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks.

ked and served; esp., an earthenware jar containing some table delicacy and sold with its contents.

With that or this. "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Phil. iv. 11.

out; to reject or discard; to expel. "The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile." Swift. "The bill was thrown out." Swift. (b) To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks." Spenser. (c) To distance; t…

A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty- five imperial, gallons.

A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.

To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.

The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.

The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b). A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 seemed sufficient to conquer the world. Motley.