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▪ I. suckle, n.1|ˈsʌk(ə)l|
Also 5 succle, sokel, -yl, 6 suckell.
[app. short for honeysuckle. Cf. suckling n.2]
a. Clover. Also called † lamb-suckle.
b. attrib. in † suckle-bloom glossing L. locusta. = honeysuckle 1, 1 b. Obs.
14..Medical MS. in Anglia XIX. 78 Succle, a good medycyne for þe web in þe eye. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 787 Hec locusta, a sokylblome. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccclxxvii. 1018 Medow Trefoile is called..of some Suckles, and Honisuckes. 1709T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick System 91 Honey..which they suck out of the Honey-Flowers, as the Honey-Suckle, Lamb-Suckle, the Clover Flowers. 1728R. Bradley Dict. Bot., Suckles is Honeysuckle.
c. = honeysuckle 2. Also suckle bush.
1816L. Hunt Rimini ii. 192 And ivy, and the suckle's streaky light. 1886Britten & Holland Plant-n., Suckle⁓bush, Lonicera Periclymenum.
d. fig.
c1425Cast. Persev. 976 in Macro Plays 106 Luxuria. With my sokelys of swettnesse, I sytte & I slepe.
▪ II. suckle, n.2|ˈsʌk(ə)l|
[f. next.]
†1. A suckling organ. Obs. rare.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 26 The body of this fish [sc. the manatee]..wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon.
2. A suckling-house for lambs. local.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1056 In order to conduct this sort of fattening with..success, a lamb-house or suckle of proper dimensions must be provided.
▪ III. suckle, v.|ˈsʌk(ə)l|
Also 5 sukle, 6 soc(k)le.
[Of obscure formation.
Usually taken to be f. suck v. + -le, but the ordinary frequentative meaning of this suffix is not appropriate. Possibly a back-formation from suckling n., first recorded c 1440.]
1. a. trans. To give suck to; to nurse (a child) at the breast.
1408Wyclif's Bible Job iii. 12 (MS. Fairf. 2) Whi was j suklid wiþ tetis? 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 161 Iago. She was a wight... Des. To do what? Iago. To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere. 1607― Cor. i. iii. 44 The brests of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, look'd not louelier Then Hectors forhead. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 41 My Brinded Heifer..Two Thriving Calves she suckles twice a⁓day. a1704T. Brown Satire Quack Wks. 1730 I. 63 Some she-bear..Suckled thee young. 1789Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 233 If she continue to suckle the child, it is at the peril of her own life. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxvi, The misery of the mother's condition rendered her little able to suckle the infant. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 470 A calf is suckled for 10 weeks. 1879Dixon Windsor I. iv. 35 An English prince,..suckled by an English nurse.
absol.1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 361/2 The specific gravity of the milk appears to increase as the woman continues suckling.
b. fig. To nourish with, bring up on.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. A 3, It began in the ninth age, and in the tenth was suckled with little arguments and imperfect pleadings. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 35 The Roots..are till that time in a manner suckled by the Mother Plant. 1732Pope Ess. Man i. 134 For me kind Nature..Suckles each herb, and spreads out ev'ry flow'r. 1781Cowper Expost. 364 Though suckled at fair freedom's breast. 1807Wordsw. ‘The world is too much with us’ 10 A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn. 1883G. Moore Mod. Lover xvii, The great artist..is born in the barren womb of failure and suckled on the tears of impotence.
2. To cause to take milk from the breast or udder; to put to suck. Also with up. Now rare.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §38 Put the lambe to her, and socle it. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 78 If kiddes be sockled vp wyth ewes milke. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 28 Feb. an. 1776 Suckling calves after they are ten weeks old, is bad management. a1796Vancouver in A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) II. 284 A third [purpose] may be added, that of suckling, or feeding calves for the London market. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. Seine 131 [The Jews] were forbidden to suckle their children by means of Christian nurses.
3. intr. To suck at the breast.
1688, etc. [? implied in suckling ppl. a. 2]. 1823Mme. P. Panam Mem. Yng. Gr. Lady 102 The child who was suckling at my bosom. 1966P. Scott Jewel in Crown i. 28 Their children, three girls and two boys to date (apart from the one still suckling..) sat on the front benches. 1977Sci. Amer. Aug. 80/3 Since the evicted joey may continue to suckle for another four months, the female red kangaroo may have three offspring in the ‘pipeline’ at any one time: a dormant blastocyst, a small joey nursing and developing in the pouch and a larger young-at-foot still suckling.
Add:[3.] b. trans. = suck v. 9 a. Also transf.
[1951Nature 8 Sept. 421/1 The terminology we propose is as follows:..Suckling (milking). The activity of the young (or operation of the milking device) with the aim of obtaining milk from the mammary glands.] 1971Ibid. 3 Sept. 73/2 A letter..published by you in 1951..must evidently be blamed..since some authors have quoted it as their authority for writing ‘suckle’ when they have meant ‘suck’. 1971Countryman Autumn 66 They [sc. calves] try to suckle every visitor within reach. 1972Sci. Amer. Dec. 18/3 It took several hours for them [sc. kittens] to find a nipple to suckle. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xxxiii. 383 The breasts he had suckled had drooped and become veined. 1984N. McClure Century Bk. Pregnancy & Birth 134/2 The baby should be placed on the mother's abdomen and allowed to suckle the breast. |