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Feed from the breast
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suckle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN baby ▪ Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time. ▪ On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby . ▪ Once, on the dunes, she opened her ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Suckle were an indie pop band formed in Glasgow , Scotland in the mid-1990s by former Vaselines member Frances McKee , along with her sister and co-vocalist in the group Marie McKee and another former Vaselines member James Seenan. After early releases, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily" give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed , bottle-feed , suck , nurse , wet-nurse , lactate , give suck ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suckle \Suc"kle\, v. i. To nurse; to suck. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, perhaps a causative or frequentative form of Middle English suken "to suck" (see suck ), but OED suggests instead a back-formation from suckling (though this word is attested only from mid-15c.). Related: Suckled ; suckling .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A teat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. 2 (context intransitive English) To nurse; to suck.
Usage examples of suckle.
They produce from one to two at a birth, which are carried about by the mother and suckled at the breast, this peculiarity being one of the anatomical details alluded to as claiming for the bats so high a place.
Nathaniel cupped her hips, pressed his fingers into rounded flesh while he suckled, wide mouthed, both of them convulsing with the sweetness of it.
What has a young man bred abroad in a vapid Court, and suckled into Papistry, to say to the people of England?
A more direct influence, on prolactin at least, is the stimulating effect of suckling.
Cathy recoupled them as he sat beside the wall and suckled upon a thin nipple.
Somehow I did not think Soli was referring to the sewing of skins or the suckling of babies, the everyday work of the Devaki women.
Ianna had given birth to her in the old old way, had suckled her and kept her close until she was old enough to go into intensive training in the labs and automated factories that turned out the starships and other equipment the Strays needed and the Stayers coveted.
She released him with a suckling noise and stood erect, presenting her wet mouth for a kiss as he had taught her.
His open mouth claimed a pliant peak and nearly devoured her bosom with ravenous hunger, halting her breath at the sheer ecstasy of his stroking tongue and suckling caresses.
He suckled the edge of her mouth and tasted the corners and teased her tongue, and his hands roved over her arms.
She took up whoring to support Jane and the granddaughter, then a suckling babe, without telling Jane.
Many india and africana women worked naked to the waist in the fields or suckled their babies with their bare breasts on the street.
What was the command of the Lord to Saul when he went out against Agag king of the Amalekites but to slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, and when Saul would have saved Agag, what said Samuel to him?
Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them.
There was one suckling infant in arms, no young children, and no elderly.