SUCK'LER, a mammal thatsuckles its young, a suckling.
They went out at a back-door which led to a beautiful walk under a long trellis, which was covered with honey-suckles and roses.
Mary Erskine also caused trees and shrubbery to be planted near the house, and trained honey-suckles and wild roses upon a trellis over the front door.
The assumption we are now able to draw, namely that the mother always suckles and nurses her own child, is of great importance.
She suckles it until it reaches the age of three to five years.
Nearly the same food and care are requisite for the cow as the ox; but the cow that suckles requires more particular attention, as well in the chusing as in the management.
Defn: A nurse whosuckles a child, especially the child of another woman.
Monogamy requires from him periodical continence, not only for a certain time every month, but among many peoples during the pregnancy of his wife, and as long as she suckles her child.
No superstitious belief keeps the civilised man apart from his wife during her pregnancy and while she suckles her child; and the suckling time has become much shorter since the introduction of domesticated animals and the use of milk.
A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman.
It suckles its young at the breast like man and the monkey; and if Linnæus flinched from this rather too absurd parentage, old navigators were less scrupulous.
One female suckles four or five young ones, and beats away any other young that comes towards her; from which circumstance I conclude they bring forth four or five young ones at a litter.
This animal is viviparous, and suckles its young by the mamilla, like quadrupeds, and its flesh is firm and muscular.
The mother suckles them five or six weeks, after which time she drives them out of the burrow, and teaches them to seek for their own nutriment.
The elephant-mother suckles and safeguards her baby-elephant for two whole years.
She brings forth in winter, previous to which she provides a bed of hay and moss at the bottom of her den, and suckles her young till they are able to follow her in the spring.
While the scar'd songsters leave the quiv'ring bough, The blasted honey-suckles droop below, And many noble branches strew the ground!
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