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▪ I. † sucking, n. Obs.
[f. suck n.2]
(See quot.)
1499Placitum in Blount Law Dict. (1691) s.v., Per Sucking, hoc est fore quiet. de illis amerciamentis, quando le Burlimen, id est, supervisores del Ringyord,..præmonit. fuerint ad imparcand. & faciend. clausuras illas simul cum vicinis suis, ille qui non venit ad talem præmonitionem amerciatus erit ad pretium unius vomeris, Anglice a Suck, prætii quatuor denar.
▪ II. sucking, vbl. n.|ˈsʌkɪŋ|
[f. suck v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb suck; suction. Also, an instance of this.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xi. (Symon & Iudas) 324 Þai wechis, þat had mare care of þat swkyne þan þai had yare. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxi. 8 Thanne the child growide and was don awey fro sowkyng. 14..Tundale's Vis. 123 Thou blestful quene of kyngis emperes That gaf thi son sowkyng in a stall. c1440Jacob's Well 231 Whan þe modyr wanyth here child, sche wetyth here tetys wyth sum byttere thyng, & so þe chyld felyng ofte þat bytternes leuyth his soukyng. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 84 Otes with hir sucking a peeler is found. 1581Satir. Poems Reform. xliii. 44 Preseruit from slauchter be souking of a beir. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 91 Meil quhilke throuch souking thay fed vpon. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 267/2 Nether must we afther his meates and suckinges, dandle it much. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 234 An Instrument or pipe..made of this forme, will cause the water by sucking to rise vp and run forth. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 61 Reserving only one for sucking of the old ones, to keep them in milk. 1885Daily News 13 Feb. 5/1 There are very powerful engines which do the blowing and the sucking through these tubes. 1892Carmichael Dis. Children 287 The child should be fed at regular intervals from both breasts at each sucking.
†b. transf. = suction 1 c. Obs.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 10 Appetite wanting. If there be no sucking, the forces cannot fail, and there are signs of repletion.
2. pl. What is obtained by suction. rare.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. iv. (Skeat) I. 27 The olde soukinges whiche thou haddest of me arn amaystred and lorn fro al maner of knowing. 1809Malkin Gil Blas x. x. (Rtldg.) 371 To dip in my four fingers and thumb, and then to sup like a bear upon suckings.
3. attrib. and Comb., as sucking operation, sucking power; † sucking-bone, ? a marrowbone; sucking-cushion, -pad, a lobulated mass of fat occupying the space between the masseter and the external surface of the buccinator; † sucking-pipe, a pipe used for drawing air or water in some direction; sucking-pot = sucking-bottle 1; sucking reflex Biol., the instinct to suck as possessed by the young of all mammals; sucking response Biol., the action of sucking as a response to some stimulus or influence; † sucking-tooth = milk-tooth; sucking-tube, a tube through which liquid is sucked into the mouth; sucking-up slang, sycophancy; † sucking-young a., young enough to be still sucking the dam.
1648Hexham ii, Een Zuygh-been, a *Sucking-bone.
a1907Sutton in Piersol's Human Anat. 493 The *sucking cushions sometimes enlarge in adults.
1896Hardy Jude i. vi, She had managed to get back one dimple by..repeating the odd little *sucking operation before mentioned.
1889Macalister Human Anat. 566 The buccal fat in the child forms a lobulated..*sucking-pad.
1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 228 [In a Draught of Savery's Engine] G The Force Pipe. H The *sucking Pipe. 1731Ibid. XXXVII. 7 A Sucking Pipe and Grate..going into the Water, which supplies all the four Cylinders alternately. 1735Ibid. XXXIX. 42 The Sucking-Pipe receives its Air only from the Room where the Machine stands.
1552Huloet, *Suckyng pot for chyldren, aliphanus. 1843C. A. F. Parke Let. 19 Aug. in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) xi. 125 She uses a sucking pot, but the Old Crab thinks that she sucks in wind.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 272 On this occasion their *sucking power is particularly serviceable.
1923T. P. Nunn Education 167 An infant is born in vigorous possession of the *sucking reflex. 1974Biol. Abstr. LIX. 2593/2 An otherwise normally developed female rabbit without ears may have lost them when still in the nest due to a ‘sucking-reflex’ among its siblings, such as that which occurs among young mice.
1938Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. LIII. 369, 49 per cent of sleeping infants gave *sucking responses to stimulation of the lips. 1975Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. & Psychol. LXXXVIII. 796 Monitoring sucking responses to a rubber teat revealed that..the vigorous oral activity continued largely unabated.
1601Holland Pliny I. 338 A guelding never casts his teeth, no not his *sucking teeth, in case he were guelded before.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2442/2 The *sucking-tube was used by the ancients as a domestic utensil, and also in the temples.
1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays ii. 7 ‘Thank heaven my people sent me here with a decent grub box.’ ‘But what has a grub box to do with being caned..?’ Brown asked. ‘The gentle art of *sucking-up, of course... Not to the beaks.’ 1978‘M. Innes’ Ampersand Papers i. v. 44 He wasn't doing any sucking-up act on Archie.
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc ii. 110 It was a most swift Beast, and such as could not be taken, save when it was *sucking-young.
b. Applied to various organs in fishes, crustaceans, etc. adapted for use as suckers, e.g. sucking-bowl, sucking-cup, sucking-disk, sucking-foot, sucking-mouth, sucking-spear, sucking-tube.
1841T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. §171 In the male Actheres, the *sucking-bowl possessed by the female does not exist.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 446 The two anterior [legs]..exhibiting, on the inside, a kind of rosette, formed by the muscles, and seeming to act as a *sucking-cup.
1830J. E. Gray in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 592/1 A dorsal tail, ending in a *sucking disk. 1883Science I. 195/2 Ambulatory tentacles..terminating..in expanded sucking-disks.
1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 167 The bird's foot star..which you may see crawling by its thousand *sucking-feet.
a1843South Zool. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 279/2 The *Sucking Mouth exhibits..three different forms, the proboscis, the promuscis, and the antlia.
1895D. Sharp Insects in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 467 The *sucking-spears of this Insect are so long and slender as to look like hairs.
1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 310 The *sucking tube, or tongue [of hymenoptera].
▪ III. sucking, ppl. a.|ˈsʌkɪŋ|
[f. suck v. + -ing2.]
1. a. That sucks milk from the breast; that is still being suckled, unweaned.
† sucking fere [fere n.1, companion], a foster brother. (Cf. even-sucker s.v. sucker n. 1.)
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 246 æᵹðer ᵹe men ᵹe ða sucendan cild. c1205Lay. 20973 Þa sukende children þeo adrenten inne wateren. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (Jacobus) 689 Hyre sowkand sowne þane cane scho ta. 1382Wyclif Acts xiii. 1 Manaen, that was the sowkynge feere of Eroud tetrarke. c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 14 A louynge moder listeth to play with her souking childe. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 466 A sucking babe in the cradell, not fully halfe a yeare olde. 1611Bible Isa. xlix. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child? 1743Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 302 And ev'ry parish sucking-babe Again be nurs'd with Gin. 1845G. Johnson Mat. Med. in Encycl. Metrop. VII. 508/1 If infusion of senna be given to the nurse, the sucking infant becomes purged.
†b. absol. transl. L. lactens, etc.: Suckling. Obs.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 16 Of muðe cildra & sukendra. c1000ælfric Deut. xxxii. 25 Cniht and mædenu, sucende mid ealdum men. a1325Prose Psalter cxxx. 4 As þe souking is vp his moder. 1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xv. 3 Sle fro man vnto womman, and litil child, and soukynge.
2. a. Of an animal: That is still sucking its dam. See also sucking-pig.
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. vii. 9 O sowkynge loomb. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxiii. (Bodl. MS.), Flesche of souking calues. c1440Promp. Parv. 463/2 Sokynge gryce, nefrendus. 1513Douglas æneis viii. x. 81 The sowkin wolff furth streking brest and vdyr. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xlvi. 16 What tyme as he offred the suckynge lambes. 1557Richmond Wills (Surtees) 94 Soulkynge calves. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 29 Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare. 1833W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. Introd., A sucking-mastiff.
b. Of a bird: That is still with its mother. Now chiefly in sucking dove, echoed from Shaks. (see quot. 1590); also attrib.
Cf. dial. sucking duck, gander, turkey, used fig. = simpleton.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 85, I will aggrauate my voyce so, that I will roare you as gently as any sucking Doue. 1634Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xxii, For 5 dozen and 1 sucking chickinges at 2d. ob the chick, 00 12 03ob. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxiv, He never had so much [brains] as would make pap to a sucking gosling. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. iv, Some loud as the lion; some small as the sucking dove. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 157 From the sucking-dove eloquence of Private Secretaryship, he suddenly thundered into a Boanerges! 1858Trollope Dr. Thorne xxvi, No young sucking dove could have been more mild than that terrible enemy [etc.].
3. fig.
a. Not come to maturity; not fully developed; budding.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. lviii, Some petty sucking Knaves their best did try. Ibid. xix. cxvii, From sucking sneaking Schisms, they boldly broke Into the monstrous amplitude of those Black Heresies [etc.]. 1678Dryden All for Love Pref., Ess. 1900 I. 193 My enemies are but sucking critics, who would fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come. 1681― Span. Friar iii. i, This is no Father Dominic..; this is but a diminutive sucking Fryar. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 50. 3/2 You are as yet, but a sucking Young Lover. 1834Marryat P. Simple iv, He looks like a sucking Nelson. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. ii, Told you he was a sucking Freshman, Giglamps! 1876Nature 13 Jan. 202/2 The book before us, however, is not the book we should recommend to a sucking geometer.
transf.1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. viii, Most of the manufacturers placed their sons in sucking situations at fourteen or fifteen years of age.
b. Infantile, childishly innocent.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy x. 96 To see their simplicity—sucking simplicity, I call it.
4. That sucks down, under water, into a whirlpool, etc. † sucking sand = quicksand.
1513Douglas æneis i. iii. 42 The sowcand sweltht. Ibid. vii. vi. 45 Quhat proffitit me Sirtis, that soukand sand? 1670–1Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 118 Sucking Rocks lie on the North-side of the Streights. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 249 Where through some sucking pool I will be hurl'd With rapture to the other side of the world! 1853R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 28 There's a nine-knot breeze above, And a sucking tide below. 1910B. Capes J. Abercraw ii. xviii. 259 It was like a nightmare race over sucking quicksands.
†5. Tending to drain or exhaust; = soaking ppl. a. i. Obs.
c1440Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 246 ‘Accidia’ ys a souking sore, he traveylyth me from day to day.
6. Special collocations: sucking carp, the carp-sucker, Ictiobus carpio; sucking louse, a blood-sucking ectoparasite of mammals belonging to the order Siphunculata (or Anoplura); † sucking-paper, blotting-paper; sucking stomach Zool., a stomach in certain invertebrates that expands so as to provide a food reservoir (formerly interpreted as the means by which the animal imbibed fluid); † sucking stone, pumice.
1804Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 237 *Sucking Carp. Cyprinus Catastomus..: said to live chiefly by suction.
1910R. Doane Insects & Disease iv. 54 The *sucking lice..are suspected of carrying some of these same diseases. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 68/1 Sucking louse: This parasite [of pigs] is very common in New Zealand. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxxvi. 223 Members of the order Anoplura, all of which are known as ‘sucking lice’ possess ‘sucking’ mouthparts borne on an elongated head.
a1648Digby Closet Opened (1677) 227 Filter it through *sucking-paper.
1886F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-Keeping I. vii. 94 Cook calls the honey-sac the ‘*sucking stomach’, using an old, but extremely misleading, title. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 98 The organ is then known as the food-reservoir or ‘sucking stomach’, but the latter expression is misleading and incorrect.
1664Comenius' Janua Ling. 582 marg., A *sucking stone ful of little holes. |