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- Absorb - v. t. - To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
- Absorb - v. t. - To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
- Absorb - v. t. - To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
- Absorb - v. t. - To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
- Absorbability - n. - The state or quality of being absorbable.
- Absorbable - a. - Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
- Absorbed - imp. & p. p. - of Absorb
- Absorbedly - adv. - In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
- Absorbency - n. - Absorptiveness.
- Absorbent - a. - Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
- Absorbent - n. - Anything which absorbs.
- Absorbent - n. - Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- Absorbent - n. - The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
- Absorber - n. - One who, or that which, absorbs.
- Absorbing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Absorb
- Absorbing - a. - Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
- Absorbition - n. - Absorption.
- 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.
- Imbibe - v. t. - To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.
- Carnivorous - a. - Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
- Epiblema - n. - The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
- 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.
- 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.
- Exsiccator - n. - An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.
- Swallow - v. t. - To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
- Blotting paper - - A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
- Catapasm - n. - A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
- 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.
- Engulf - v. t. - To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
- Hollander - n. - A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker.
- Absorptive - a. - Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.
- Reabsorb - v. t. - To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.
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- H1572 גָּמָא - 1572 גָּמָא - גָּמָא - - gâmâʼ - gaw-maw' - a primitive root (literally or figuratively) to absorb; to absorb; swallow, drink. - Verb - heb
- H1573 גֹּמֶא - 1573 גֹּמֶא - גֹּמֶא - - gômeʼ - go'-meh - from גָּמָא; properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus; (bul-) rush. - Noun Masculine - heb