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; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke.

One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

Suggestion. [R.] They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.

A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

Wrong or evil suggestion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

ed, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

ipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.