suing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

suing

1. present participle and gerund of sue

Etymology 2

Compare French suer (“to sweat”).

Noun

suing (countable and uncountable, plural suings)

1. The act of one who sues for something.
   • 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Pilgrims of the Rhine:

     […] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]

2. (obsolete) The process of soaking through anything.
   • 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:

     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.

References

• “suing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ginsu, Guins, using

Middle English

Verb

suing

1. (Northern) Alternative form of swyngen