Also 5 succle, sokel, -yl, 6 suckell. [app. short for HONEYSUCKLE. Cf. SUCKLING sb.2]
a. Clover. Also called † lamb-suckle. b. attrib. in † suckle-bloom glossing L. locusta. = HONEYSUCKLE 1, 1 b. Obs.
14[?]. Medical MS., in Anglia, XIX. 78. Succle, a good medycyne for þe web in þe eye.
c. 1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 787. Hec locusta, a sokylblome.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cccclxxvii. 1018. Medow Trefoile is called … of some Suckles, and Honisuckes.
1709. T. Robinson, Vindic. Mosaick System, 91. Honey … which they suck out of the Honey-Flowers, as the Honey-Suckle, Lamb-Suckle, the Clover Flowers.
1728. R. Bradley, Dict. Bot., Suckles is Honeysuckle.
c. = HONEYSUCKLE 2. Also suckle-bush.
1816. L. Hunt, Rimini, II. 192. And ivy, and the suckle’s streaky light.
1886. Britten & Holland, Plant-n., Sucklebush, Lonicera Periclymenum.
d. fig.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 976, in Macro Plays, 106. Luxuria. With my sokelys of swettnesse, I sytte & I slepe.
