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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suck \Suck\ (s[u^]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sucked} (s[u^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sucking}.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s[=u]can, s[=u]gan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s[=u]gan, Icel. s[=u]ga, sj[=u]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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sucking \Suck"ing\, adjective 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sucking
noun: the act of sucking [syn: {suck}, {suction}]
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