sucking pump

[SUCTION-PUMP.] *suck-in-y, s. [O. Fr.souquenie .] A loose frock worn over other clothes. *sŭc-kle, s . [SUCKLE, v .] A teat. sŭc'-kle, v . t . ori. [Eng. suck , v.; freq. suff. -le .] 1. To nurse at the breast; to give suck to. "Our jolly hoste nineteen children bore, Nor failed her breast to suckle nineteen more." Gay: To the Earl of Burlington , Ep. 2. *2. To suck. suck-ler, s. [Eng. suckl (e), v.; -er.] One who suckles; a suckling. "It would pay to transport sucklers or even weaned calves, between these districts."- Field , Jan. 16, 1886. suck-ling, *sok-ling, *soke-ling, *sokelynge, * sucke-lyng, s. [Eng. suck (le); -ling .] 1. Ord. Lang.: A young child or animal not yet weaned. IMG:content-0520.png:[blocks in formation] Chem.: (C12H20010)2. A molecular combination C12H22O11 of dextrin and cane sugar, discovered by Mr. G. Lewin, a noted English chemist among the soluble constituents of germinated barley. It forms a dry, tastele powder, soluble in 50 per cent. of alcohol, but scarcely soluble in alcohol of 90 per cent. Its existence is probably intimately connected with the transformation of the starch molecule into cane sugar by the aid of the vital vegetable function. sù-crōse, subst. [Fr., sucr(e)=sugar; suff. -ose (Chem.).] [CANE-SUGAR.] suc-tion, s . [O. Fr., from Lat. suctum , sup. of sugo to suck; Fr. succi on .] The act or proce of sucking; the removal of atmospheric pre ure from any interior space, so as to allow the atmospheric pre ure to act externally; as when water is sucked up through a tube, the air being exhausted from the latter by the mouth, the pre ure of the external air on the fluid forces it up through the tube; the act of drawing into the mouth. "Sounds (both exterior and interior) may be made, as well by suction , as by emi ion of the breath; as in whistling, or breathing."- Bacon : Nat . Hist . , § 191. Power of suction : Capacity for imbibing alcoholic liquors. ( Slang .) "Wery good power o' suction, Sammy." -Dickens: Pick wick , ch. xxiii.