Bible Dictionaries
Suck

King James Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Such

Next Entry
Sucked

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Dictionaries
King James Dictionary
• Sucking
• Sucked
• Suck
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Suck, Suckling
Wilson's Bible Types
• Suck
Webster Dictionary
• Sucking
• Sucked
• Suck
•   (only first 3 shown)
Lexicons
• ܝܺܢܶܩ
• θηλάζω
• חָלָב
• יָנַק מֵינֶקֶת, , נוקּ
• מָצָה
•   (only first 3 shown)

SUCK, L. sugo.

1. To draw with the mouth to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast to draw into the mouth. To suck is to exhaust the air of the mouth or of a tube the fluid then rushes into the mouth or tube by means of the pressure of the surrounding air.

2. To draw milk from with the mouth as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.

3. To draw into the mouth to imbibe as, to suck in air to suck the juice of plants.

4. To draw or drain.

Old ocean suck'd through the porous globe.

5. To draw in, as a whirlpool to absorb.

6. To inhale.

To suck in, to draw into the mouth to imbibe to absorb.

To suck out, to draw out with the mouth to empty by suction.

To suck up, to draw into the mouth.

SUCK, To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube.

1. To draw the breast as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking.

2. To draw in to imbibe.

SUCK, n. The act of drawing with the mouth.

1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.