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Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.
   1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
      which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
      to other bodies.

   2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl.

   3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
      pump basket. --Boyle.

   4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.

   5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string
      attached to the center, which, when saturated with water
      and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth
      surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure,
      with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be
      thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a
      plaything.

   6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of
      a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment
      from the body of the plant.

   7. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) Any one of numerous species of North American
          fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
          {Catostomid[ae]}; so called because the lips are
          protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of
          little value as food. The most common species of the
          Eastern United States are the northern sucker
          ({Catostomus Commersoni}), the white sucker ({C.
          teres}), the hog sucker ({C. nigricans}), and the
          chub, or sweet sucker ({Erimyzon sucetta}). Some of
          the large Western species are called {buffalo fish},
          {red horse}, {black horse}, and {suckerel}.
      (b) The remora.
      (c) The lumpfish.
      (d) The hagfish, or myxine.
      (e) A California food fish ({Menticirrus undulatus})
          closely allied to the kingfish
      (a); -- called also {bagre}.

   8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

            They who constantly converse with men far above
            their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if
            thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker,
            no branch.                            --Fuller.

   9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]

   10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]

   11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]

   {Carp sucker}, {Cherry sucker}, etc. See under {Carp},
      {Cherry}, etc.

   {Sucker fish}. See {Sucking fish}, under {Sucking}.

   {Sucker rod}, a pump rod. See under {Pump}.

   {Sucker tube} (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral
      tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker
      and used for locomotion. Called also {sucker foot}. See
      {Spatangoid}.

Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf.
   AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry
   tree, Gr. ?, perh. fr. ? horn, from the hardness of the
   wood.]
   1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also
      includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony
      stone;
      (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which
          several hundred varieties are cultivated for the
          fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart,
          black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke
          (corrupted from M['e]doc in France).
      (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black
          cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke
          cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent
          fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird
          cherry).

   2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors
      and flavors.

   3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry,
      used in cabinetmaking, etc.

   4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.

   {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}.

   {Cherry bird} (Zo["o]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird;
      -- so called from its fondness for cherries.

   {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar.

   {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped.
      

   {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus
      Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous
      leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.
      

   {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C.
      cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant
      cherry-shaped fruit.

   {Cherry pit}.
      (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a
          hole. --Shak.
      (b) A cherry stone.

   {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped.

   {Cherry sucker} (Zo["o]l.), the European spotted flycatcher
      ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper}
      {cherry snipe}.

   {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries.

   {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}.