sucking bottle

An infant's feeding-bottle. "He that will say, children join these general abstract speculations with their sucking - bottles, has more zeal for his opinion, but le sincerity."-Locke. IMG:content-0521.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Steam -eng.: The valve through which the water is drawn from the hot-well into the feed pump by the rise of the plunger. †sŭck'-ý, sŭck'-le, s . Eng. suck; -y.] Bot. ( pl .): The flowers of Trifolium pratense . suc-tör-I-a, s.pl. [ Lat.suctum , sup.of sugo =to suck.] Biol.: A name given by different authors to various groups of animals, from the fact that the mouth is more or le developed into a suctorial rather than a masticatory organ. *1. A name given by Cuvier to the second family of his Chondropterygians; he afterward abandoned it for Duméril's name, Cyclo stomata. *2. The same as Aphaniptera (q. v.). 13. An order of Infusoria, with one family, Acinetina. It is now generally replaced by Kent's order Tentaculifera-suctoria, of his cla Tentaculifera. 4. A group of Annelid a, containing the Leeches. [HIRUDINEA, LEECH.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, suctorial