OriginCompare French suer (“to sweat”).
- form-of, gerund, participle, presentpresent participle and gerund of sue
- countable, uncountableThe 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 […]”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableThe 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 ”
Formssuings(plural)