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Bog :: Bog (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..

Bibulous :: Bibulous (v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper..

Sponging :: Sponginess (n.) The quality or state of being spongy.

Fungus :: Fungus (n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Any spongelike substance.

Swabber :: Swab (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm..

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus..

Sprinkled :: Springy (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land..

Halichondriae :: Halichondriae (n. pl.) An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff..

Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..

Medullary :: Medullary (a.) Filled with spongy pith; pithy.

Spongin :: Spongilla (n.) A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.

Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..

Vinaigrette :: Vinaigrette (n.) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette..

Glass-rope :: Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together..

Spongy :: Spongoid (a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.

Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) See Disponge.

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