Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUCK, v.t. [Sax. sucan, succan; G. saugen; D. zuigen; Sw. suga; Dan. suer, contracted; Ir. sagham; W. sugaw; L. sugo; Fr. sucer; It. succiare, succhiare; Sp. and Port. sacar, to draw out.]

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. – Thomson.
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb. – Dryden.
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.