suings

Noun

suing (countable and uncountable, plural suings)

1. The 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 […]1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Pilgrims of the Rhine
2. (obsolete) The 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 must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.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...