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Sprinkled :: Springy (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land..

Mire :: Mire (n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth..

Diploe :: Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull..

Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..

Sponging :: Sponginess (n.) The quality or state of being spongy.

Colocynth :: Colocynth (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd..

Cancellated :: Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones..

Bibulous :: Bibulous (v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Medullary :: Medullary (a.) Filled with spongy pith; pithy.

Solid :: Solid (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem..

Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..

Stroma :: Stroma (n.) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

Quaggy :: Quaggy (a.) Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy..

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

Scurvy :: Scurvy (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It

Fozy :: Fozy (a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

Pith :: Pith (n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue..

Solid :: Solid (a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy..

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