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ngly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. Once one may crave for love. Suckling.

The chub sucker.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

A sucker or acetabulum.

nus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

elaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

s, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

To deprive if content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.

the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. [Written also dorrhawk.] Booth.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. And let the purple violets drink the stream. Dryden.

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

ng some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.

The act of sucking out.