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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Suck

Sŭck, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [ĭmp. & p. p. SUCKED (sŭkt); p. pr. & vb. n. SUCKING.] [A-S. sūcan, sūgan, O. H. Ger. sūgan, N. H. Ger. saugen, D. zuigen, Icel. suga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, sue, allied to Lat. sugere.]

  1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which serves to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
  2. To draw milk from, with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.
  3. To draw in or imbibe, by any process which resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants.
  4. To draw or drain. “Old ocean sucked through the porous globe.” Thomson.
  5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up; to ingulf.

As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden. To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.—To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.—To suck up, to draw into the mouth.

Sŭck, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To draw by causing a vacuum, as with the mouth, or through a tube.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I. Shak.

Sense 2. To draw the breast; as, a child or the young of an animal is first nourished by sucking.

Sense 3. To draw in; to imbibe.

Sŭck, n.

noun

n. 1. The act of drawing with the mouth.

  1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.
  2. Juice; succulence. [Obs.] Ward.

Sŭck, n.

noun

n. [Lat. succus, juice.] Succulence; juice. [Obs.]