n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.
Syn. -- parasitic, parasitical, leechlike. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive. [ vulgar slang ]
Syn. -- rotter, rat, skunk, stinker, bum, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, motherfucker, mother. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a person who performs fellatio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Sucked out of marches. “Fen-sucked fogs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ AS. hāmsōcn. See Home, and Seek. ] (Scots Law) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Honey eater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. hunisūge privet. See Honey, and Suck. ] (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, Lonicera Caprifolium, and Lonicera Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; Lonicera Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; Lonicera grata, the American woodbine, and Lonicera sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is Lonicera Xylosteum; the American, Lonicera ciliata. The American Pinxter flower (Azalea nudiflora) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with honeysuckles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The lumpfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A woodcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sucked p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking. ] [ OE. suken, souken, AS. sūcan, sūgan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. sūgan, Icel. sūga, sjūga, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To draw or drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. [ 1913 Webster ]

As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the bee sucks, there suck I. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls really suck; he's a good actor, but his singing sucks. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of drawing with the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small draught. [ Colloq. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Juice; succulence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of American Indian origin. ] A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Succotash. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Socome, Soc. ] (Scots Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (Catostomus teres), the hog sucker (Catostomus nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. [ 1913 Webster ]

They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

12. A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes. [ PJC ]

11. Any thing or person; -- usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

Carp sucker,
Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. --
Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. --
Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. --
Sucker tube (Zool.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Suckered p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering. ] 1. To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone). [ PJC ]

v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Illinois; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Suck, v. t., Succades. ] A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To engage in french kissing (soul-kissing). [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A sucker fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [ 1913 Webster ]

I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. --
Sucking fish (Zool.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. --
Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. --
Sucking stomach (Zool.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Suckled p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling ] [ Freq. of suck. ] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breasts of Hecuba
When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To nurse; to suck. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A teat. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sokeling. See Suck, v. t. ] 1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Tussock. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Far.) A horse given to wind-sucking Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The kestrel. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Far.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]