Word Meanings - ABSORBING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

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• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• ABSORB
  Etym: 1. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving. 2. To suck up; to drink
• ABSORBENCY
  Absorptiveness.
• ENGROSS
  n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak. 2. To amass.
• ABSORBENT
  Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• SWALLOW-TAILED
  United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck , the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull , an Arctic gull , which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite , the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth , a European moth
• ENGROSSER
  1. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters. 2. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.
• ABSORBER
  One who, or that which, absorbs.
• ENGROSSMENT
  1. The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift. 2. That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.
• ABSORBABLE
  Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. Kerr.
• ABSORBEDLY
  In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• BANK SWALLOW
  See N
• REABSORB
  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.
• UNABSORBABLE
  Not absorbable; specifically , not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.