Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic English) To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).
WordNet
v. give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate] [ant: bottlefeed]
Usage examples of "give suck".
While nursing she was not breedable, and she continued to give suck, diminuendo, long enough that she stayed infertile until the next midday.
Cries of children urging themselves upon their exhausted mothers who were locked in a dead sleep, too tired to uncover their breasts and give suck.
And her swollen untapped breasts ached to give suck to her golden-headed son.
Haven't you seen how sometimes a bitch will give suck to a kitten among her puppies?
The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug, so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.
But I am struck by her looks, she is a handsome woman, not red but wondrous brown, and it came into my mind to open my bodice, show her my breasts, that, though I had whiter skin, I could give suck as well as she and she reached out and touched my bosom.
The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug so varified with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.
But in six months this woman began to feel certain motions of nature, which told her there were other joys besides the pleasure of spoiling her breasts to give suck to her brat, and she wanted to see her sposo again.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!