n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.
Syn. -- parasitic, parasitical, leechlike. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive. [ vulgar slang ]
Syn. -- rotter, rat, skunk, stinker, bum, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, motherfucker, mother. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a person who performs fellatio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. exsuccus; ex out + succus juice. ] Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsugere, exsuctum, to suck out; ex out + sugere to suck: cf. F. exsuccion. ] The act of sucking out. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sucked out of marches. “Fen-sucked fogs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ AS. hāmsōcn. See Home, and Seek. ] (Scots Law) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Honey eater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. hunisūge privet. See Honey, and Suck. ] (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, Lonicera Caprifolium, and Lonicera Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; Lonicera Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; Lonicera grata, the American woodbine, and Lonicera sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is Lonicera Xylosteum; the American, Lonicera ciliata. The American Pinxter flower (Azalea nudiflora) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with honeysuckles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insucare, insucatum, to soak in; pref. in- + succus, sucus, sap. ] The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [ Obs. ] Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of success. [ R. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The lumpfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A woodcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Nonesuch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. succus, sucus, juice: cf. F. succade a sugarbox. Cf. Sucket. ] 1. A sweetmeat. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Com.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. Blakely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Succade gourd. (Bot.) Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A succedaneum. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. succedaneus. See Succeed. ] Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Succedanea [ NL. See Succedaneous. ] One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; specifically (Med.), a remedy used as a substitute for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Succeeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Succeeding. ] [ L. succedere, successum; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F. succéder. See Cede, and cf. Success. ] 1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

As he saw him nigh succeed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [ Obs. & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Succeed my wish and second my design. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enjoy till I return
Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. [ 1913 Webster ]

No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To go under cover. [ A latinism. Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you to the cooler cave succeed! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To follow; pursue. See Follow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Succeeding one another; following. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A successor. Shak. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL., an accompanier in singing, fr. succinere to sing, to accompany; sub under, after + canere to sing. ] (Eccl.) A subchanter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. successus: cf. F. succès. See Succeed. ] 1. Act of succeeding; succession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned
By due success. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The tempter stood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dream of success and happy victory! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or teach with more success her son
The vices of the time to shun. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Succession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My peculiar honors, not derived
From successary, but purchased with my blood. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. successio: cf. F. succession. See Succeed. ] 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was in the succession to an earldom. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. “A long succession must ensue.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical. --
Succession duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [ Eng. ] --
Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. “Successional teeth.” Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. successif. See Succeed. ] 1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a successive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being successive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no success. [ 1913 Webster ]

Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. successour, OF. successur, successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See Succeed. ] One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. succiduus, fr. succidere to fall under. ] Ready to fall; falling. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. succus, sucus, juice, sap + -ferous. ] Producing or conveying sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of succinamic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. succinum, sucinum, amber, from succus, sucus, juice, sap: cf. F. succinate. ] (Chem.) A salt of succinic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture. ] 1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. [ 1913 Webster ]

His habit fit for speed succinct. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. -- Suc*cinct"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. succinique. See Succinate. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C&unr_;H&unr_;.(CO&unr_;H)&unr_;, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido. [ 1913 Webster ]