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A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]

of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the kine." Gay. I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. Shak.

The Australian crested goatsucker (Ægotheles Novæ-Hollandiæ). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

ix fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net…

erous insect of the genus Bychoda, having fringed wings. -- Moth hunter (Zoöl.), the goatsucker. -- Moth miller (Zoöl.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a). -- Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.

ous parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.

A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.

ds, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius, allied to the goatsuckers.

t yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.

floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden. The paps which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27.

A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

s albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.

] "Physical herbs." Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation. --…

udes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

A division of trematode worms having more two suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma.

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).