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a.
Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.
n.
One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.
v.
That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
a.
Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
v. t.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
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.
a.
Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
n.
One who, or that which, absorbs.
n.
Anything which absorbs.
a.
Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution.
v. t.
To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
a.
Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
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.
n.
A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.
n.
The state or quality of being absorbable.
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.
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