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▪ I. suckling, n.1|ˈsʌklɪŋ|
Forms: 5 suklinge, sukkelyng, 5–6 sokelyng(e, 6 suc(k)lynge, -elynge, 7 sucklin, 6– suckling.
[f. suck v. + -ling1. Cf. MDu. sôgeling (Du. zuigeling, WFlem. zoogeling), MHG. sôgelinc, sûgelinc (G. säugling).]
1. a. An infant that is at the breast or is unweaned.
c1440Promp. Parv. 463/1 Sokelynge, or he þat sokythe, sububer. 1535Coverdale Ps. viii. 2 Out of the mouth of the very babes & sucklinges thou hast ordened prayse. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 8 The place, that in infantes, and late borne sucklynges, is so soft, and tender. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 389 A louing mother, though her yoong suckling crie all night,..when she ariseth, she loueth it neuerthelesse. 1845Wordsw. ‘Young England’ 14 Let Babes and Sucklings be thy oracles. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 129 In this country at any rate, rickets is practically unknown amongst sucklings.
b. A young animal that is suckled; esp. a sucking calf; cf. suckler 1.
1530Palsgr. 272/1 Sokelyng a yong calfe. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 43 b, Here next to my house, are my Sucklings, that are brought to their dammes to sucke thrise a day. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 136 Calves are either Sucklings or Wainlings. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal xi. (1697) 285 The tend'rest Kid And Fattest of my Flock, a Suckling yet. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments iv. (1735) 92 When an Animal that gives Suck turns feverish,..the Milk turns..to Yellow; to which the Suckling has an Aversion. 1821Byron Cain ii. ii, I lately saw A lamb stung by a reptile: the poor suckling Lay foaming on the earth. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 590 Half the dogs pupped there are supposed to die of it while sucklings.
c. fig.
1806H. K. White Let. to R. W. A. 18 Aug., This island, and its little suckling the Isle of Wight.
2. = sucker n. 4. dial. Cf. suckler 5.
1798Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 345 The sucklings of my old trees transplanted.
▪ II. suckling, n.2|ˈsʌklɪŋ|
Also 5 suklynge, 5–6 sokelyng(e.
[app. f. suckle n.1]
1. Clover. (Also lamb-sucklings.) dial. † Also glossing L. locusta. = honeysuckle 1, 1 b; suckle n. 1 a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 463/1 Sokelynge, herbe (or suklynge), locusta. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 270 As we with swete bredys have it [sc. the passover lamb] ete And also with the byttyr Sokelyng. [Cf. Exodus xii. 8.] 1530Palsgr. 272/1 Sokelyng an herbe. a1682Sir T. Browne Extr. Common-Pl. Bks. Wks. 1835 IV. 379 The flowers of sorrel are reddish,..of sweet trefoil or suckling three-leaved grass, red or white. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 123 The white or Dutch clover... Probably from the apparent advantage which sheep receive from this admirable grass, is it called lamb's sucklings. 1798Hull Advertiser 24 Mar. 2/1 Clover seed, trefoil, sainfoin, red suckling. 1895Gloss E. Anglia, Suckling..(2) The common purple clover. In Suffolk, however, the red clover is never called suckling, but that term is generally used for the white or Dutch clover. 1898Rider Haggard Farmer's Year (1899) 61 The suckling is already thick in the grass, making patches of green carpeting.
2. = honeysuckle 2 (Lonicera Perichymenum). Obs. exc. dial.
1653Lawes Ayres & Dial. ii. 16 The wanton Suckling and the Vine. 1664in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 208 To smell the sucklins and the stocks and to see the new trees grow. 1678R. Ferrier Jrnl. in Camden Misc. (1895) IX. 32 Fine walks covered overhead with roses and sucklings. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 408 Sucklin,..the honey-suckle.
▪ III. suckling, vbl. n.|ˈsʌklɪŋ|
[f. suckle v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The feeding of infants at the breast. b. The rearing of young calves, etc. in suckling-houses.
1799Syn. Husb. in R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1805) II. 978 In suckling..the charges are much heavier than when the milk is sold out of the pail. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 64 The processes connected with reproduction and suckling. 1892J. Carmichael Dis. Childr. 288 Irregular Suckling is a fruitful cause of illness in the infant.
c. transf. (see quot.).
1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 153 The Lancashire exhibitors..leave but very few [gooseberries] on each bush, and increase the size of those..by a process called ‘suckling’, i.e., placing a pan of water under each berry, that it may swell from the vapour given out.
2. attrib., as suckling time; suckling assistant, a device for relieving nursing mothers when suffering from sore nipples; † suckling box, ? a feeding-bottle of wood; suckling-house, a house or hut in which young calves or lambs are brought up; † suckling meats, food suitable for infants.
1803Med. Jrnl. X. 353 Relfe's *suckling assistant.
1679C. Nesse Antichrist 97 Milk in a warm breast is more effectual nourishment, than milk in a cold *suckling box.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Oct. 1775 The Suckler..drove one of the cows out of the *suckling-house into the yard.
c1610Women Saints 111 Then had she nyne poore infants..whome she fedd on her knees, with tender and *suckling meates agreeable for their infancie.
1818Keats Endym. iii. 456 She took me like a child of *suckling time, And cradled me in roses.
▪ IV. suckling, ppl. a.|ˈsʌklɪŋ|
[f. suckle v. + -ing2.]
1. a. Giving suck. b. Rearing young calves, etc. in suckling-houses.
1799Underwood Dis. Childhood (ed. 4) I. 293 Infants at the breast necessarily lying so much on the arm of the suckling mother. c1800Abdy in A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) II. 278 In the dairy farms the calves are generally sold at a week old, to the suckling farmer. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 979 The calf-suckling farmer.
2. = sucking ppl. a. 1, 2.
In earlier quots. possibly attrib. use of suckling n.1
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2357/4 Lost..a black and white suckling Spaniel Bitch. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments etc. 404 Most of the Diseases of suckling Infants proceed from Milk growing sour and curdling in the Stomach. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, Though thou art not so tender as a suckling pig. 1835Wordsw. Sonn. ‘While poring Antiquarians’, The Wolf, whose suckling Twins [etc.]. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 163 Milk, the natural food of the suckling animal.
b. transf. and fig.
1866Swinburne Laus Veneris lxxix, O breast whereat some suckling sorrow clings. 1882Coues Biogen (1884) 43 Some German metaphysicians and their suckling converts. |