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The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
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v. t.
To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
v. t.
To soak; also, to beat severely.
v. i.
To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
v. i.
To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Soak
n.
The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
a.
Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.
v. i.
To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
imp. & p. p.
of Soak
v. t.
To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.
p. a.
Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
v. t.
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
v. t.
To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
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.
v. i.
To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
superl.
Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
v. t.
To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
n.
One who, or that which, soaks.
n.
A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.
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