Suck
(Suck), n.
1. The act of drawing with the mouth.
2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. Shak.
3. A small draught. [Colloq.] Massinger.
4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.]
Suckanhock
(Suck"an*hock) n. [Of American Indian origin.] A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
Suckatash
(Suck"a*tash) n. See Succotash. Bartlett.
Sucken
(Suck"en) n. [See Socome, Soc.] (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of
ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
Sucker
(Suck"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and
remora, adhere to other bodies.
2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl.
3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle.
4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated
with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of
the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the
string; — used by children as a plaything.
6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; — so called, perhaps, from diverting
nourishment from the body of the plant.
7. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value
as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker the white
sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker and the chub, or sweet sucker Some of the large Western species are
called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d)
The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish
(a); — called also bagre.
8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if
thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.
Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]
11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. — Sucker fish. See Sucking
fish, under Sucking. — Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. — Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of
