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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUCK'ER, n. He or that which draws with the mouth.
1. The embolus or piston of a pump.
2. A pipe through which any thing is drawn.
3. The shoot of a plant from the roots or lower part of the stem; so called perhaps from its drawing its nourishment from the root or stem.
4. A fish, called also remora; also, a name of the Cyclopterus or lump-fish.
5. The name of a common river fish in New England.
SUCK'ER, v.t. To strip off shoots; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maiz.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug]
2: a shoot arising from a plant's roots
3: a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
4: flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
5: hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker]
6: an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
7: mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. one that sucks especially a breast or udder ; suckling b. a device for creating or regulating suction (as a piston or valve in a pump) c. a pipe or tube through which something is drawn by suction d. (1) an organ in various animals for adhering or holding (2) a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering 2. a shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant 3. any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater bony fishes (family Catostomidae) closely related to the carps but distinguished from them especially by the structure of the mouth which usually has thick soft lips — compare hog sucker, white sucker 4. lollipop 1 5. a. a person easily cheated or deceived b. a person irresistibly attracted by something specified <a sucker for ghost stories> c. — used as a generalized term of reference <see if you can get that sucker working again> II. verb (suckered; suckering) Date: 1607 transitive verb 1. to remove suckers from <sucker tobacco> 2. hoodwink 3 intransitive verb to send out suckers <corn suckers abundantly>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a person or thing that sucks. b a sucking-pig, newborn whale, etc. 2 sl. a a gullible or easily deceived person. b (foll. by for) a person especially susceptible to. 3 a a rubber cup etc. that adheres to a surface by suction. b an organ enabling an organism to cling to a surface by suction. 4 Bot. a shoot springing from the rooted part of a stem, from the root at a distance from the main stem, from an axil, or occasionally from a branch. 5 any of various fish that has a mouth capable of or seeming to be capable of adhering by suction. 6 a the piston of a suction-pump. b a pipe through which liquid is drawn by suction. 7 US colloq. a lollipop. --v. Bot. 1 tr. remove suckers from. 2 intr. produce suckers.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sucker Suck"er, v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sucker Suck"er (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. --Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. 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. (Bot.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid[ae]; 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. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. --Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sucker Suck"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckered; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering.] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hag Hag, n. [OE. hagge, hegge, with, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. ?.] 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] ``[Silenus] that old hag.'' --Golding. 2. An ugly old woman. 3. A fury; a she-monster. --Grashaw. 4. (Zo["o]l.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. 5. (Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater. 6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount. Hag moth (Zo["o]l.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees. Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(suckers) 1. If you call someone a sucker, you mean that it is very easy to cheat them. (INFORMAL) But that is what the suckers want so you give it them... N-COUNT; N-VOC [disapproval] 2. If you describe someone as a sucker for something, you mean that they find it very difficult to resist it. (INFORMAL) I'm such a sucker for romance. N-COUNT: N for n 3. The suckers on some animals and insects are the parts on the outside of their body which they use in order to stick to a surface. N-COUNT 4. A sucker is a small device used for attaching things to surfaces. It consists of a cup-shaped piece of rubber that sticks to a surface when it is pressed flat. ...sucker pads. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. One who sucks. 2. Embolus, piston. 3. (Ich.) Lump-sucker, lump-fish. 4. (Bot.) Stole, stolon.

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