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er of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.

A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

genus Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug (Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other insects. -- Soldier crab (Zoöl.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab. -- Soldier fish (Zoöl.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma coeruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called als…

To suck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The carp sucker.

A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.

ze and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. -- Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. -- Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is ra…

Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.

Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] Paley.

ity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling.

A little shoot; a twig; a sucker. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.

East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicæum. They are allied to the honeysuckers.

The European purple gallinule. -- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, or Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink. -- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. -…