Suck (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. scan, sgan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. sgan, Icel. sga, sjga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.]
1.
To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
2.
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.
3.
To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
4.
To draw or drain.
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
Thomson.
5.
To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
Dryden.
To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.
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Suck, v. i.
1.
To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
Shak.
2.
To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
3.
To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.
Bacon.
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Suck, n.
1.
The act of drawing with the mouth.
2.
That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
Shak.
3.
A small draught.
[Colloq.]
Massinger.
4.
Juice; succulence.
[Obs.]
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