vbl. sb. and ppl. a. [cf. prec.]
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. iv. 22. The rising of blood-sucking sighes.
1601. Yarrington, Two Lament. Traj., II. ii. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Blood-sucking Avarice.
1648. Hunting of Fox, 17. Cannibals … compar’d with the Blood-sucking Sectaries, lose the style of cruelty.
1683. Addr. fr. Boston, in Lond. Gaz., No. 1857/3. Not contented with the Blood-sucking of a Monarch so matchless Merciful.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 907/2. The mouth is formed … as in the blood-sucking Diptera.
