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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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 (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. — Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. — Sucking stomach (Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.