suckle

1. a. To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse.
   b. To take milk at the breast or udder of.
2. To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment.
3. To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture: “a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” (William Wordsworth).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English suclen

Origin: , perhaps from suklinge, suckling; see suckling