Meanings
suing1
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sue
suing2
plural suings
- countableuncountableThe act of one who sues for something.
[…] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]
1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Pilgrims of the Rhine - countableobsoleteuncountableThe process of soaking through anything.
In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
Origin
Compare French suer (“to sweat”).
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