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Hollander :: Hollander (n.) A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker..

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Amuse :: Amuse (v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder..

Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..

Unabsorbable :: Unabsorbable (a.) Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food..

Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..

Lymph :: Lymph (n.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together..

Deliquesce :: Deliquesce (v. i.) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies..

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue..

Drier :: Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth..

Absorbedly :: Absorbedly (adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture..

Absorbing :: Absorbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absor.

Rapt :: Rapt (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation..

Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..

Lymphatic :: Lymphatic (n.) One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct..

Kieselguhr :: Kieselguhr (n.) Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite..

Study :: Study (v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.

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

Imbibition :: Imbibition (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons..

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