suckerfish (sukerfish)

The sucking-fish or remora. Jour. Anthrop. Inst., XIX. 325. sucker-foot (suk'er-fut), n. 1. One of the suctorial tube-feet, or sucker-tubes, of an echinoderm; an ambulacral pedicel capable of acting as a sucker.-2. In entom., a proleg. sucker-mouthed (suk'er-moutht), a. Having a mouth like that of the catostomoid fishes called suckers: as, the sucker - mouthed buffalo, a fish, Ictiobus bubal us. sucker-rod (suk'er-rod), n. A rod which connects the brake and the bucket of a pump. E. sucker-tube (suk'er-tūb), n. One of the sucker H. Knight. feet of an echinoderm. sucket (suk'et), n. [Partly an accom. form of succade, partly Windam, all rageinge, brake vppe Pinteados Caben, broke open his chestes, spoyled suche prouisyon of coulde stilled waters and suckettes as he hade prouided for his health, and lefte hym nothynge. R. Eden, First Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 377). IMG:content-2419.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A sucking rabbit. Hall i well. [Obsolete or provincial in both uses.] suckfish (suk'fish), n. 6041 of the tail-race. It is said to render the whole fall available. E. H. Knight. She was a wight, if ever such wight were,... To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 161. II. in trans. To suck; nurse. sucklet (suk'l), n. [ Two paps, which are not a shoare upon. only suckles, but stilts to creep Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 26. suckler (suk'ler), n. [ Sucklers , or even weaned calves. The Field, Jan. 16, 1886. ( Encyc . Dict .) sucklers (suk'lerz), n. [Pl. of suckler.] The red clover, Trifolium pratense ; also, the white clover, T. repens : so called because the flowers are sucked for honey. Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] suckling (suk'ling), n. and a. [ sokeling , sokelynge (= MD. suygelinck , sooghe linck, D. zuigeling =MHG.sūgelinc, G. säugling ) , a suckling, soken , souken , suck, + -ling1 . Cf. suckle.] I. n. 1. A suckler; a young animal IMG:content-2420.png:[blocks in formation] And fattest of my Flock, a Suckling yet, Ps. viii. 2. That ne'er had Nourishment but from the Teat. Congreve, tr. of Eleventh Satire of Juvenal. 2. ( a ) The white clover, Trifolium repens; (b) the red clover, T. pratense; (c) the honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum: so called because their flower-tubes are sucked for honey. Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] - Lamb's suckling, the white clover, and the bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus cornicula tus. Yellow suckling, an agricultural name for the small yellow clover, Trifolium minus. II. a . Sucking, as a young mammal; not yet weaned; hence, figuratively, young and inexperienced. O breast whereat some suckling sorrow clings. Swinburne , Laus Veneris. suck stone (suk's ton), n. [ Echeneis remora . A little fishe called a suck stone , that staieth a ship under saile, remora. Withals, Dict., 1608.