Index of English words, starting with "su"

(1) - Suck (n.) Juice; succulence.
(2) - Suck (n.) A small draught.
(3) - Suck (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
(4) - Suck (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.
(5) - Suck (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
(6) - Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
(7) - Suck (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
(8) - Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
(9) - Suck (v. t.) To draw or drain.
(10) - Suck (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
(11) - Suck (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
(12) - Suck (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

(1) - Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
(2) - Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
(3) - Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
(4) - Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
(5) - Sucker (n.) 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.
(6) - Sucker (n.) 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.
(7) - Sucker (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; 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.
(8) - Sucker (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
(9) - Sucker (n.) The lumpfish.
(10) - Sucker (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
(11) - Sucker (n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
(12) - Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
(13) - Sucker (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
(14) - Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
(15) - Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
(16) - Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
(17) - Sucker (n.) The remora.

(1) - Suckfish (n.) A sucker fish.