Obs. Also sucke. Variant spelling of SUC, prob. influenced by SUCK v.
1560. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr., II. 14 b. The suck or iuice of a radish roote.
1567. Painter, Pal. Pleas., II. 146. The sucke & marrow of his bones.
1621. Lodge, Summary of Du Bartas, I. 270. A liquid and fluent matter, composed of that sucke which furnisheth the Stomacke.
1631. A. B., trans. Lessius’ De Prov. Num., 119. The fruit serues for the continuance of the seed,… and therefore they are more full of suck.
1635. Swan, Spec. Mundi, vi. (1643), 297. Succinum is a Bituminous suck or juice of the earth.
