• have a suck at sg, to take a suck at sg
• to butter sy up, to slaver, to smarm
• band, bar, bunch, bundle, cluster, pile, sheaf, truss
• apple souce, butter, lick, toadyism
• to modulate, to shade, to tincture, to tinge, to tint, to tone, to vignette
• to be on the wing, to wing, to wing its flight, to wing its way, to wing the air
• cast, dye, gradiation, nuance, shade, tinge, tone