sucker 
sucker (snk'er), r. [<.</, ir, .\ I. Innix. 1. 
To strip off suckers or shoots from : deprive <if 
suckers; specifically, In remove superfluous 
shools I'rom (lie root and ;il tile ;i\ils of the 
leaves of (tobacco). 
How i In- Indians ordered their tobacco I am not certain, 
. . . but I ala informed they lifted to 1ft it all run to seed, 
indy Kucarriny the leaves to keep the uproutH from grow- 
ing upon and starving them ; and when it was i-ijii- tin -\ 
pulled nil the leaves, cured them in the sun, and laid I In m 
up for use. Severity, Virginia, II. " ; - (l - 
2. To provide with suckers: :i-i, the micl;<-r<-<l 
linns of ii cuttlelish. //. ti)n-nri-i; I'rin. of 1'sv- 
chol., w 5. 
II. in trans. To send out suckers or shoots. 
Its most marked characteristics, however, are Ustcndcn 
cles to sucker immoderately. 
Seribiier'i Mag., March, 1880, p. 72. 
SUckerel (suk'er-el), n. [< x/ir/- 1 + -rri'l, on mod- 
el of ///</, -i-ri'l. | A catostomoid fish of the Mis- 
sissippi valley, < 'i/i'lr/iliix flnii/jiitiix; the Missouri 
or gourd-seed sucker, or black-horse, a singular 
catostomoid of large size (li to ~i feet long), 
and of very dark or blackish coloration. See 
cut under Cycteptus. 
sucker-fish (suk'er-fish), n. The sucking-fish 
or remora. Jour. Ant/irop. Inst., XIX. 325. 
sucker-foot (suk'or-fut), . 1. One of the suc- 
torial tube-feet, or sucker-tubes, of an echino- 
derm ; an ambulacral pedicel capable of acting 
as a sucker. 2. In en torn., a proleg, 
sucker-mouthed (suk'er-moutht), a. Having a 
mouth like that of the catostomoid fishes called 
.iiirkcrs : as, the fucker-mouthed buffalo, a fish, 
Ictiobus bubalus. 
sucker-rod (suk'er-rod), n. A rod which con- 
nects the brake and the bucket of a pump. E. 
H. ni i ih /. 
sucker-tube (suk'er-tub), n. One of the sucker- 
feet of an echiuoderm. 
Bucket (suk'et), >. [Partly an accom. form of 
MModb] partly < suck 1 + -et. Cf. equiv. suck 1 , 
5, sucker, 9.] 1. A dried sweetmeat or sugar- 
plum ; hence, a delicacy of any kind. 
WIndam, all rageinge, brake vppe Pinteados ('alien, 
broke open his chestes, spoyled suche prouisyon of coulde 
stilled waters and euckettes as he hade prouided for his 
health, and lefte hyin nothynge. 
R. Eden, First Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 377). 
But, monsieur, 
Here are tuckets, and sweet dishes. 
Fletcher, Sea Voyage, v. 2. 
2. A sucking rabbit. Halliwett. [Obsolete or 
provincial in both uses.] 
SUCkflsh (suk'fish), n. 1. The sucking-fish 
or remora. 2. A crustacean parasite of the 
sperm-whale: so called by whalemen. Lobtail- 
ing is said to be done by the whale to rid iteelf of these 
troublesome creatures. C. M. Scammon. 
SUCkin (suk'in), H. See suck-en. 
SUck-in (suk'in), . [< suck in: see suck 1 .'] A 
take-in ; a fraud. [Slang.] 
sucking (suk'ing), p. a. [< ME. souk ing ; ppr. 
of sucfcl, r.] 1. Drawing or deriving nourish- 
ment from the mother's breast ; not yet weaned; 
very young. 
There were three suekiiuj pigs erv'd up In a dish. 
Maiaringer, City Madam, ii. 1. 
Hence 2. Figuratively, very young and inex- 
perienced; undergoing training; in the early 
stage of a career; in leading-strings; "vealy. 
My enemies are but fuelnng critics, who would fain be 
nibbling ere then- teeth are come. 
Dryden, All for Love, Pref. 
The very curates . . . she . . . looked upon as gudcing 
saints. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xiv. 
3f. Draining; exhausting. 
Accidia ys a souking sore. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 117. 
Sucking center, a nervous center believed to exist in the 
medulla, with afferent fibers from the fifth and glossopha- 
ryngeal nerves the efferent fibers being in the facial, 
hypoglossus, third division of the fifth, and branches of 
the cervical plexus, which supply the depressors of the 
lower jaw. Sucking dove, a sucker or dupe; a simple- 
ton ; a cony; a ^nll. 
sucking-bottle (suk'ing-bot'l), n. A mrrsing- 
bottle. 
sucking-disk (suk'ing-disk), n. A sucker; a 
discoidal sucking-organ, as an acetabulum: ap- 
plied to any flat or concave expansive surface 
which functions as a sucker. 
sucking-fish (suk'ing-fish), M. 1. A fish of the 
family Eehrncitliilif; a remora. 2. The lam- 
prey. [Local, Eng.] 
sucking-pump (suk'iug-pump), n. Same as 
^itctitni-ftninjt. 
sucking-stomach (suk'ing-stum'ak), n. The 
haustollate or suctorial stomach of various in- 
sects and some crustaceans, which sucks up the 
''.in I 
juiecs of plants on which they feed or of Hie 
host on which they are parasite*. 
suckinyt, . Same as .MU-I.IHI/. 
SUCkle (suk'l), r.; pri-t. and pp. niirklnl, ppr. 
surkliii;/. [Freq. of mick 1 . Cf. snrklui<i.] I. 
trans. To give suck to; nurse at the breasi. 
She WHS a wight, if ever such wight were, . . . 
To Hiirklr fmilH and rhrntiir].- .Mnall IM-IT. 
Shale., Othello, li. 1. 181. 
II. intniH.1. To suck; nurse. 
SUCklet (suk'l), H. [< mirklr. r.] A teat. 
Two paps, which are not only micHa, but stilts to creep 
a shoare upon. Sir T. Herbert, TrareU, p. 26. 
Buckler (suk'ler), n. [< suckle + -er 1 .] An 
animal which suckles its young; any mammal; 
also, a young one not yet weaned ; a suckling. 
Kucklrr*, or even weaned calves. 
The Field, Jan. 18, 1886. (Bncyc. Diet.) 
SUCklers (tmk'lerz), M. [PI. of stickler.} The 
red clover, TriJ'nliuiu firiilfnia'; also, the white 
clover. '/'. i < i'< n.*: so called because the flowers 
are sucked for honey. Britten mid Holland. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
suckling (suk'liiiK), n. and . [< ME. soklini/, 
sokelini/, xiil.'i/i/iii/c ( = MD. suy</elinck, sooghe- 
linck, I). :uii/i'liiiii = MHG.ii<7C//"< 1 , < . niimilini/), 
a suckling, < soken, souken. suck, 4- -ling 1 . Cf. 
suckle.] I. . 1. A suckler; a young animal 
not yet weaned. 
Babes and mrkliwj*. Pi. v'.ii. - 
The tend'rett Kid 
And fattest of my Flock, a Suckling yet, 
That ne'er had Nourishment but from the Teat 
Cottgrece, tr. of Eleventh Satire of Juvenal. 
2. (n) The white clover, Trifolium repens; (b) 
the red clover, T. protease; (c) the honeysuckle, 
Loniccra Periclymenum : so called because their 
flower-tubes are sucked for honey. Britten ami 
Holland. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb's suckling, the 
white clover, and the bird H-foot trefoil, Lotus cornicula- 
tut. Yellow suckling, an agricultural name for the 
small yellow clover, Tryolium minus. 
II. a. Sucking, as a young mammal; not yet 
weaned; hence, figuratively, young and inex- 
perienced. 
O breast whereat some aitHing sorrow clings. 
Swinburne, Laus VenerU. 
suckstone (suk'ston), . [< suck 1 , r., + obj. 
stone.'] The suckfish, Echenei* remora. 
A little flshe called a mdcttmir, that staleth a ship under 
saile, remora. n'it/,,,1-:, Diet., 160S. 
sucre't, antl A Middle English form of 
Suction -pump. 
a, piston; 4, barrel: 
barrel: r. cpout, 
pump-dale, O r dale. 
Sucre 2 (so'kre), . A silver coin of Ecuador, of 
the weight of 25 grams and the fineness of 
.900. Rep. of Sec. of Treasury, 1886, pp. 230, 412, 
413. 
sucrose (su'kros), n. [< F. sucre (see sunar) + 
-oe.] A general name for the sugars identical 
in composition and in general properties with 
cane-sugar, having the formula (Ci2H22Ou)n: 
same as saccharose. 
suction (suk'shon), n. [< OF. suction, F. succion 
= Sp. succion, < L. as if *suctio(n-), < sugere, pp. 
suctu3, suck: see suck.] The process or con- 
dition of sucking; the removal of air or gas 
from any interior space producing a diminu- 
tion of pressure which induces an inrush of 
gas or liquid to restore the equilibrium, if the 
process is maintained, a continuous current ia produced. 
See suction-pump and Mtmpl. Also used attributively. 
Suction curette of Teale, an Instrument employed for 
the removal of a soft cataract from the eye. 
suction-anemometer (suk'shon-an-e-mom'e- 
ter), H. An anemometer in which a diminution 
of pressure caused by the wind is used as a mea- 
sure of its velocity. Two dlfterent forms have been 
proposed, corresponding to two distinct ways In which a 
moving nuid produces a diminution of pressure. This, 
the so-called metinn, is produced in the one by the wind 
blowing through a horizontal tube having a contracted 
section, and in the other by the wind blowing across the 
month of a vertical tube. 
SUCtion-boX (suk'shqn-boks), . Inpaper-mak- 
iiKj, a chamber in which there is a partial vacu- 
um, placed below the web of pulp to assist in 
removing the water from it. 
suction-chamber (snk'shon-cham'ber), ii. The 
barrel or cylinder of a pump into which the li- 
quid is delivered from the suction-pipe. 
suction-fan (suk'shon-fan), n. In milling, a fan 
for withdrawing by suction chaff and refuse 
from grain, or steam and hot air from meal as 
it comes from the burs. E. H. Knight. 
suction-pipe (suk'shon-plp), H. 1. The pipe 
leading from the bottom of a pump-barrel or 
-cylinder to the well, cistern, or reservoir from 
which the water or other liquid is to be drawn 
up. See pump 1 . 2. An air-tight pipe run- 
sudamina 
ning from beneath a water-wheel to the level 
of the tail-race. 1 1 is said to render the whole 
fall available. /-'. //. l\nitilit. 
SUCtion-plate (suk'shon-plal>, n. A form of 
dental plate for support im; an upper set of 
artificial teeth, held in position by atmospheric 
pressure induced by a vacuum between the 
plate and the roof of the mouth. 
Suction-primer (suk'shon-pri'mer),w. A small 
force-pump fitted to a steam-pump, and used 
to fill the pump and drive out the air before 
admitting ste:iin to the main pump. 
SUCtion-pnmp (Huk'shqn-pump), . A pump 
having a barrel placed above the level of the 
water to be drawn, a suction- 
pipe extending from the barrel 
down into the watertobe raised, 
an inlet-valve opening inward 
or toward the piston, and an 
outlet-valve in the piston, when 
the piston Is raised, the air in tin h:n 1 1 1 
below the piston expands, Its tension 
i correspondingly <lli]ilnihc<l, and the 
pressure of the external air upon the 
surface of the liquid ouUide forces it 
up into the suction-tube. Beepumpl. 
SUCtion-Valve (suk'shon-valv), 
n. 1. In a suction-pump, the 
valve in the bottom of the bar- 
rel, below the piston. 2. In a 
Rteam-engine, a valve through 
which the rise of the plunger 
causes the water from the hot- 
well to flow into the feed-pump. 
Suctoria (suk-to'ri-a), n. pi. 
[NL., neut. pi. otsuctorius: see 
8uctoriou#.~\ Suctorial animals: 
applied to various zoological 
groups in which the mouth is 
suctorial, hausteilate, sipho- 
nostomous, or otherwise fitted 
for sucking. Specifically- (ot) In 
ichth., the cyclostomous fishes, or my- 
lonU ; the lampreys and hags, having 
the mouth formed Into a sucker ; in 
Cuvier's system, the second family of Chondropterygii 
branchiis font, later called Cydottomata, or Cydottomi, and 
Myzonteg, and now known as the class Martipobranchii. 
Also Suctorii. See cut under lamprey. (M) In Venne* : 
(1) The suctorial or discophorous annelids; the leeches: 
now called Ilirudinea. See cut under letch. (2) A branch 
of the phylum Platyhelmia, composed of the three classes 
Trematoidea, Cettfndea, and Hirudinea: an artificial group 
contrasted with a branch Cilinta. E. R. Lanltetter. (et) 
In fiitimi., the suctorial apterous insects : so called by l)v 
Geer ; in Latreille's system, the fourth order of insects, 
also called by him Siphonapte.ro., and now known as Apha- 
niptera ; the fleas. (<() In Cnatacea, the Rhizocephala or 
Centrogonida. (e) In /Yofozoa, the suctorial, acinetiform, 
or tentaculif erous inf nsoriana ; in the classification of Cla- 
parede and Lachmann (1858 - 60), the third order of Iiifv- 
goria, consisting of a family Acinetiiia, with 8 genera : called 
by Kent Tmtacultfera ntctoria. See Tentaculif era. 
suctorial (suk-to'ri-al), a. [< suctori-oug + -al.] 
1 . Adapted for sucking ; functioning as a sucker 
or sucking-organ of any kind ; sucking ; haustel- 
late : as, the suctorial mouth of a lamprey ; the 
suctorial tongue (antlia) of a butterfly or moth ; 
the suctorial proboscis of a flea; the suctorial 
disk of a sucking-fish, an octopod, a leech ; the 
suctorial facets of a trematoid worm ; the sucto- 
rial tentacles of an infiisorian. 2. Capable 
of sucking; fitted for imbibing fluid or for ad- 
hering by means of suckers ; provided with a 
sucking-organ, whether for imbibing or for ad- 
hering ; of or pertaining to the Suctoria, in any 
sense : as, a suctorial bird, fish, worm, insect, 
crustacean, or animalcule Suctorial fishes, the 
cyclostomous fishes, or lampreys and hags : same as Sue- 
toria (" i. The lancelets have been called f ringed-mouthed 
suctorial Jifheg. 
SUCtorian (snk-to'ri-an), w. [< suctori-ous + 
-an.] A suctorial animal ; a member of the 
ffuctoria, in any sense; especially, a cyclosto- 
mous fish. 
suctorious (suk-to'ri-us), a. [< NL. suctorius, 
< L. suctorius, < sugere, pp. suctus, suck: see 
suck 1 .} Same as suctorial Suctorious mandi- 
bles, in entam., mandibles which are tubular, having an 
orince through which liquid food passes to the mouth, as 
in the larva- of certain aquatic beetles and in the young 
ant-lion. 
sud (sud), H. [A var. of sod, or from the game 
ult. source: see sod, seethe. Cf. sutts.'] 1. The 
drift-sand left in meadows by the overflowing 
of rivers. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A young scallop 
of the first year, from July to NoVember. 
sud (sud), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sud<le<l, ppr. nutl- 
ding. [< nud, .] To cover with drift-sand by 
flood. Wright. [Prov. Eng.] 
sudamina (su-datn'i-nS), n. pi. [NL., < L. su- 
dare, sweat: see sudation.] In pathol., vesicle_s 
resembling millet-seeds in form and magni- 
tude, appearing on the skin in various fevers. 
