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suing - What does it mean?

Definition of 'suing'

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

  • The act of one who sues for something.
  • * Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • (obsolete) The process of soaking through anything.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
    (Webster 1913)

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