One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of
the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
to other bodies.
A suckling; a sucking animal.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump] also,
the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is
drawn.
A small piece of leather, usually round,
having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with
water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface,
adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to
enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used
by children as a plaything.
A shoot from the roots or
lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from
diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
Any
one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes
of the family
Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are
protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food.
The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern
sucker (
Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (
C.
teres), the hog sucker (
C. nigricans), and the chub, or
sweet sucker (
Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western
species are called
buffalo fish,
red horse,
black
horse, and
suckerel.
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6,
above.
A hard drinker; a soaker.
A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
A nickname applied to a native of
Illinois.
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