SPage 623
- English Word Suck Definition To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw or drain.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
- English Word Suck Definition To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
- English Word Suck Definition The act of drawing with the mouth.
- English Word Suck Definition That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
- English Word Suck Definition A small draught.
- English Word Suck Definition Juice; succulence.
- English Word Suckanhock Definition A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
- English Word Suckatash Definition See Succotash.
- English Word Sucked Definition of Suck
- English Word Sucken Definition The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
- English Word Sucker Definition One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
- English Word Sucker Definition A suckling; a sucking animal.
- English Word Sucker Definition The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- English Word Sucker Definition A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- English Word Sucker Definition A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
- English Word Sucker Definition A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
- English Word Sucker Definition Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
- English Word Sucker Definition The remora.
- English Word Sucker Definition The lumpfish.
- English Word Sucker Definition The hagfish, or myxine.
- English Word Sucker Definition A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
- English Word Sucker Definition A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
- English Word Sucker Definition A hard drinker; a soaker.
- English Word Sucker Definition A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
- English Word Sucker Definition A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.