Suck \Suck\, v. i.
1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with
the mouth, or through a tube.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I. --Shak.
2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the
young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Suck \Suck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sucking.]
[OE. suken, souken, AS. s?can, s?gan; akin to D.
zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s?gan, Icel. s?ga, sj?ga, Sw. suga,
Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent,
Suction.]
1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and
tongue, which tends 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 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.
3. 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.
4. To draw or drain.
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
--Thomson.
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
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; to draw up by suction
or absorption.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Suck \Suck\, n.
1. The act of drawing with the mouth.
2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking;
specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. --Shak.
3. A small draught. [Colloq.]
--Massinger.
4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |