Sucking : (noun)
1: the act of sucking [syn: suck, suction]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Suck \Suck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sucking.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s?can, s?gan; akin to D.
zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s?gan, Icel. s?ga, sj?ga, 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
or absorption.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Sucking : \Suck"ing\, a.
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 (Zo["o]l.), the remora. See Remora. --Baird.
Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction.
Sucking stomach (Zo["o]l.), the muscular first stomach of
certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid
food.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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