such 
Soche was the a-vision that I saugh In ray slepe. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ill. 032. 
In China they have a holy kind of Liquor made of such 
sort of Flowers for ratifying and binding of Bargains. 
Howell, Letters, ii. 54. 
In another garden to the east is such another mosque, 
called by the Mahometans Zalousa, who pretend also that 
some holy person is buried there. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 86. 
For mch is fate, nor canst thou turn its course 
With all thy rage, with all thy rebel force. 
Pope, Iliad, viii. 595. 
Such was the transformation of the baronage of early 
England into the nobility of later times. 
Stubba, Const. Hist., 299. 
3. Of that class : especially in the phrase as 
micli, 'in that particular character.' 
Of onest merth sche cowde rith mosche, 
Too daunce and synge and othre suche. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 50. 
In it he melted lead for bullets 
To shoot at foes and sometimes pullets, 
To whom he bore so fell a grutch, 
He ne'er gave quarter t' any much. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 358. 
Witty men are apt to imagine they are agreeable as such. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 386. 
4. Some ; certain : used to indicate or suggest 
a person or thing originally specified by a name 
or designation for which the speaker, for rea- 
sons of brevity, of convenience or reserve, or 
from forgetfulness, prefers to substitute, or 
must substitute, a general phrase : often re- 
peated, such or such, or such and such (even 
with a single subject, but in this case implying 
repetition of action or selection of instances). 
Newes then was brought unto the king 
That there was sicke a won as hee. 
Johnie Armstrong (Child's Ballads, VI. 251). 
She complayneth of him that, not contented to take the 
wheate, the bacon, the butter, the oyle, the cheese, to glue 
vnto -'/'/' " /''/ such out of y doores, but also steleth from 
her, to glue vnto his minion, that which she spinneth at 
the rock. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 810. 
I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. 
1 Sam. xxi. 2. 
When in rush'd one, and tells him such a knight 
Is new arriv'd. Daniel, Civil Wars, iii. 
In the mean time, those [conditions in life] of husband, 
wife, parent, child, master, servant, citizen of such or such 
a city, natural-born subject of such or such a country, may 
answer the purpose of examples. 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvi. 11. 
From the earliest times we hear of the king of such and 
such a province, the arch-king of all Ireland, the kings of 
Orkney and Man, even kings of Dublin. 
The Century, XL. 295. 
As such. See def. 3. Never such. See never. Such 
like. See like?, a. 
II. pron. 1. Such a person or thing; more 
commonly with a plural reference, such persons 
or things: by ellipsis of the noun. 
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. 
Ps. cvii. 10. 
2. The same. 
I bring you smiles of pity, not affection ; 
For such she sent. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, 1. 1. 
Suchospondylia (su"ko-spon-dil'i-a), n. pi. 
[NL., * Gr. aov^of, the crocodile, -t- (nrovdv^ a 
vertebra: see spondyl.~\ One of the major 
groups into which Keptilia (except Pteurosppn- 
dylia) are divisible, characterized by having 
upon the anterior dorsal vertebrae long and di- 
vided transverse processes, the divisions of 
these with which the tubercles of the ribs 
articulate being longer than those with which 
the heads of the ribs articulate. The group con- 
tains the existing order Crocodilia, and the fossil orders 
Dicynodontia. Ornithascelida, and Pterosauria, which are 
collectively thus distinguished on the one hand from 
Herpetospondylia and on the other from Perospondylia. 
See these words, and Pleurospondylia. 
suchospondylian (su'ko-spon-diri-an), a. [< 
Suchospondylia + -a.] Having a crocodilian 
conformation of the vertebra with regard to 
the articulation of the ribs, in consequence of 
the occurrence of long divided transprocesses 
of the vertebrae ; pertaining to the Sucliospon- 
dylia, or having their characters. 
suchospondylous (su-ko-spon'di-lus), a. [As 
fSuchospondylia + -ows.j Same as suchospon- 
dylian. 
suck 1 (suk),fl. [Earlymod. E. alsosowfce; <ME. 
souken, soioken, silken (pret. sec, soc, soek, sole), < 
AS. sucan (pret. sedc, pp. socen), also sugan = 
MD. suyghen, D. zmgen = MLG. sugen ='OHG. 
sugan, MHG. sugen, G. saugen = Icel. sjuga, 
suga = Sw. suga = Dan. suge, suck (Goth, not 
recorded): Teut. root in two forms, / suit and 
V sag ; = W. sugno, suck, = Gael, sag, suck, = 
Olr. sugim, Ir. sughaim, suck, = L. sugere (pp. 
xuctus) (LL. "snctiare, > It. succiare = OF. 
Kittrrr. .nicer), suck (cf. L. nxcus, SKCCM.S, juice: 
6040 
see succulent, suction); = Lett, sitgu, suck, = 
OBulg. s&sato, suck. Hence ult. soak (of which 
the ME. form soken was more or less confused 
with the ME. forms of surk), sucklr, xuckliiig. 
honeysuckle, etc.] I. trans. 1. To draw into 
the mouth by action of the lips and tongue 
which produces a partial vacuum. 
The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble. 
Shot., Tit. And., ii. 3. 144. 
The Bee and the Spider suck Honey and Poison out uf 
one Flower. Howell, Letters, iii. 4. 
2. To draw something from with the mouth; 
specifically, to draw milk from. 
A certain woman . . . lifted up her voice, and said unto 
him Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps 
which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27. 
Did a child suck every day a new nurse, I make account 
it would be no more affrighted with the change of faces 
at six months old than at sixty. Locke, Education, 115. 
Some [bees] watch the food, some in the meadows ply, 
Taste every bud, and suck each blossom dry. 
Addison, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
3. To draw in or imbibe by any process ; in- 
hale; absorb: usually with in, out, away, etc.: 
as, to suck in air; a sponge sucks in water. 
Wise Dara's province, year by year, 
Like a great sponge, sucked wealth and plenty up. 
Lowell, Dara. 
4. To draw or drain. 
Old ocean too suck'd through the porous globe. 
Thomson, Autumn, 1. 770. 
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; swallow up; in- 
gulf. 
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. Dryden. 
Thus far no suspicion has been suffered to reach the 
disciple that he is now rapidly approaching to a torrent 
that will suck him into a new faith. 
Hi- Quincey, Essenes, iii. 
6t. To draw in or obtain by fraudulent de- 
vices; soak. 
For ther is no theef withoute a lowke, 
That helpeth hym to wasten, and to sowke 
Of that he brybe kan or borwe may. 
Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 52. 
To suck in. (a) To draw into the mouth ; imbibe ; ab- 
sorb. (6) To cheat ; deceive ; take in. [Slang.] To suck 
the monkey. See monkey. To SUCk up, to draw into 
the mouth ; draw up by any sucking action. 
II. intrans. 1. To draw fluid into the mouth ; 
draw by producing a vacuum, as with a tube. 
Where the bee sucks, there suck I. 
Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 88. 
2. To draw milk from a teat : said of the young 
of a mammal. 3. To draw air when the water 
is low or the valve imperfect: said of a pump. 
This pump never sucks ; these screws are never loose. 
Emerson, Farming. 
SUCk 1 (suk), w. [< siicfri, v. Of. suck?, .] 1. 
Suction by the mouth or in any way ; the act of 
sucking ; a sucking force. 
Powerful whirlpools, mulct and eddies. 
Scribner's Mag., VIII. 611. 
2. Nourishment drawn from the breast. 
They moreover drawe unto themselves, togither with 
theyr sucke, even the nature and disposition of theyr 
nurses. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
I have given suck, and know 
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. 
Shak., Macbeth, I. 7. 54. 
3. A small draught. [Colloq.] 
Well. No bouse? nor no tobacco? 
Tap. Not a suck, sir ; 
Nor the remainder of a single can. 
Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts, I. 1. 
4. Rum or liquor of some kind. Tuft's Glos- 
sary. 5. Same as siicket, 1. 
suck 2 t (suk), . [< OF. (and F.) SMC = Sp. suco 
= Pg. succo = It. scco, sugo, < L. succus, prop. 
sucus, juice, moisture, < sugere, pp. sitctus, suck : 
see suck 1 , v., and cf. suck 1 , n., with which suck' 2 
is confused.] Juice ; succulence. 
The force whereof pearceth the sucke and marie [mar- 
row] within my bones. 
Palace of Pleasure, ii. S 5 b. (flares.) 
suckatasht, . Same as succotash. 
sucken (suk'n), n. [Also suckin; a var. of so- 
ken.] In Scots law, the district attached to a 
mill, or the whole lands astricted to a mill, the 
tenants of which are bound to bring their grain 
to the mill to be ground. See tliirlage. Jamie- 
son. [Lowland Scotch.] 
SUCkener (suk'ner), . [< sucken. + -ec 1 .] A 
tenant bound to bring his grain to a certain 
mill to be ground. See suckew. 
SUCkenyt, . [ME. suckiny, sukkenye, < OF. sou- 
<[uenie, sosquenie, souskanie, a surtout (>F. dim. 
souquenille, chiqiienille), < ML. soscania, < MGr. 
oovnavia, a surtout ; origin unknown.] A loose 
frock worn over their other clothes by eai'ters, 
etc. 
sucker 
.She hadde on a sukkenye, 
That not of hempe ne heerdis was. 
Rom. of the Hose, 1. 1233. 
sucker (suk'er), H. [< surf- 1 + -er 1 .] .1. One 
who or that which sucks ; a suckling. 
The entry of doubts is as so many suckers or spunges to 
draw use of knowledge. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
Specifically (a) A sucking pig: a commercial term. 
For suckers the demand was not very brisk. 
Standard, Sept. 3, 1882. (Encyc. Diet.) 
(b) A new-born or very young whale, (c) In ornith ., a bird 
which sucks or is supposed to do so : only in composition. 
Hee goatsucker, honey-sucker, (rf) In ichth., one of numer- 
ous fishes which suck in some way or are supposed to do 
so, having a conformation of the protrusive lips which sug- 
gests a sucker, or a sucker-like organ on any part of the 
body by means of which the flsh adheres to foreign objects. 
(1) Any North American cyprinoid of the family Catostomi- 
dte, us a carp-sucker, chub-sucker, hog-sucker, etc. There 
are about 60 species, of some 12 or 14 genera, almost con- 
fined to the fresh waters of North America, though one or 
two are Asiatic ; they are little esteemed for food, the flesh 
being insipid and full of small bones. Leading generic 
forms besides Catostoinus are Ictiobus and Kubaltehthys, the 
buffalo-fishes ; Carpiodes, the carp-suckers, as C. cyprinus, 
the quillbaek or skimback ; Cycleptvs, as C. elongatus, the 
black-horse, or gourd-seed sucker ; Pantogteus, the hard- 
headed suckers ; Erimyzon, the chub-suckers, as E. sucetla, 
the sweet sucker ; Minytrema, the spotted suckers ; Moxo- 
stoma, some of whose many species are called mullet , chub- 
mullet, jump-rocks, red-horse, etc. ; and QuauSUuia, or 
harelipped suckers. (See the distinctive names, with va- 
rious cuts.) The typical genus Catostomus is an extensive 
one, including some of the commonest species, as C. cmn- 
mersoni, the white or brook sucker, 18 inches long, widely 
distributed from Labrador to Montana and southward to 
Florida ; its section Hypentelium contains H. nigricans, 
the hog-sucker, hog-molly, or stone-lugger, etc. (2) Any 
flsh of the genus Lepadogaster. The Cornish sucker is L. 
gouani; the Connemara sucker, L. candollei; the bimacn- 
lated or network sucker, L. bimaculatus. See cut under 
Lepadogaster. [Eng.] (3) A snail-fish or sea-snail; one of 
several different members of the family Liparididx, as the 
unctuous sucker, Liparis vulgaris. See cuts under snail- 
fish. (4) The lump-sucker or lump-fish. See cut under 
Cyclopterui. (5) The sucking-fish or remora. See cut un- 
der Echeneis. (6) A cyclostomous flsh, as the glutinous 
hag, Myxine glutinam. See cut under hag^, 3. (7) A Cali- 
fornian food-fish, the sciasnoid Menticims undulatus. 
2. A suctorial part or organ ; a formation of 
parts by means of which an animal sucks, im- 
bibes, or adheres by atmospheric pressure, as 
if sucking; a sucking-tube or sucking-disk, (a) 
The fln of a fish formed into a suctorial disk, as that of the 
remora. See cuts under Echeneis and Jthombochirm. (b) 
The mouth of a myzont or cyclostomous fish, (c) The 
haustellate or sipnonal mouth-parts of an insect or sipho- 
nostomons crustacean ; a sucking-tube, especially of a tiea. 
See cut under chrysalis, (d) One of the cup-shaped suck- 
ing-disks or ctipules on the lower surface of the expanded 
tarsi, found in certain aquatic beetles. They are either 
affixed directly to the joint, or the smaller ones are ele- 
vated on stems, and resemble wine-glasses in shape, (e) 
An adhesive pad of an insect's foot, as a fly's, by means of 
which it walks on walls and ceilings; a pulvillus. See 
cut under house-fly. (/) A sucking-disk or acetabulum of 
the arms of a cephalopod, as an octopus ; one of the ace- 
tabuliferousarmsof such an animal. See cut under cuttle- 
fish, (tf) An adhesive or suctorial facet on the head or tail 
of various parasitic worms, as tapeworms or leeches ; a 
bothrium. See cuts under Bucephalus, leech, and cestoid. 
(A) The disk-like suctorial mouth of a leech, (t) One of 
the ambulacral pedicels or tube-feet of echinoderms, as 
starfishes ; a sucker-foot or sucker-tube. 
3. The piston of a suction-pump. 
Pretty store of oil must be poured into the cylinder, 
. . . that the sucker may slip up and down in it the more 
smoothly and freely. Boyle, Works, I. 6. 
4. A pipe or tube through which anything is 
drawn. 5. In bot. : (a) A shoot rising from 
a subterranean creeping stem. Plants which 
emit suckers freely, as the raspberry and rose, 
are readily propagated by division. (6) A sprout 
from the root near or at a distance from the 
trunk, as in the pear and white poplar, or an 
adventitious shoot from the body or a branch 
of a tree. 
Here, therefore, is our safest course, to make a retrench- 
ment of all those excrescences of affections which like 
the wild and irregular sucker, draw away nourishment from 
the trunk. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 103. 
(c) Same Ashaustorium. Compare propagiilum 
(a). 6. A smallpiece of leather to the center of 
which a string is attached, used by children as 
a toy. When rendered flexible by wetting and pressed 
firmly down on a smooth object, as a stone, the adhesion 
of the two surfaces, due to atmospheric pressure, is so firm 
that a stone of considerable weight may be lifted by the 
string. 
7. A parasite; a sponger; in recent use, also, 
a stupid person ; a dolt. [Colloq.] 
This sucker thinks nane wise 
But him that can to immense riches rise. 
Allan Ramsay, The General Mistake. 
A person readily deceived . . . the . . . Suckers, . . . 
who. despite . . . oft-repeated warnings, . . . swallowed 
the hook so clumsily baited with "Bohemian Oats." 
New York Semi-weekly Tribune, Jan. 11, 1887. 
8. A cant name for an inhabitant of Illinois. 
[I*. S.] 9. Same as sitekel. 1. [Scotch.] 
