Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suck"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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
or absorption.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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