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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not yet weaned.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Specifically, in ceramics, absorption of the glaze from ware by the porous fire-clay saggar while in the kiln.
  • Drawing or deriving nourishment from the mother's breast; not yet weaned; very young.
  • Hence Figuratively, very young and inexperienced; undergoing training; in the early stage of a career; in leading-strings; “vealy.”
  • Draining; exhausting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, .
  • adjective a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) the remora. See Remora.
  • adjective a suction pump. See under Suction.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of suck.
  • noun A sound or motion that sucks.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of sucking

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