English

Verb

suing

1. present participle 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.
   • Edward Bulwer Lytton

     […] 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.
   • 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.

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