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A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.

High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling.

s. There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. Suckling.

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.

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

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

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

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

From this source or origin. All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. Suckling. Whence come wars and fightings among you Come they not hence, even of your lusts James. iv. 1.

Want of worth; demerit. [R.] Suckling.

The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling.

Suckling; giving suck.

A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl.

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

nt suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain. Dryden. He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. Tatler.

or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

Not sighted, or seen. Suckling.

Not used to travel; as, colts that are unwayed. [Obs.] Suckling.

er. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.