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Absorb :: Absorb (v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of..

Fibrospongiae :: Fibrospongiae (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges..

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

Spongeous :: Spongelet (n.) See Spongiole.

Sponge :: Sponge (v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor..

Wet :: Wet (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth..

Spongida :: Spongiae (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera..

Spongy :: Spongoid (a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.

Ceratospongiae :: Ceratospongiae (n. pl.) An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

Physemaria :: Physemaria (n. pl.) A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies..

Porifera :: Porifera (n. pl.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and Silicea..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition..

Sponger :: Spongeous (a.) Resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

Hyalonema :: Hyalonema (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope..

Amphidisc :: Amphidisc (n.) A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

Foment :: Foment (v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

Calcispongiae :: Calcispongiae (n. pl.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera..

Sponger :: Sponger (n.) One employed in gathering sponges.

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