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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.

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

See Succotash. Bartlett.

The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

Illinois; -- a nickname.

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.

A sucker fish.

Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Su…

To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Addison. The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak. They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor.

An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

Sucked out of marches. "Fen-sucked fogs." Shak.

he European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .

The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.

See Honey eater, under Honey.

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

Covered with honeysuckles.