Sponge: alternatives and connections

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indisc…

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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

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One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

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A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebrae; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.

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One who learns; a scholar.

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A made-up face; a grimace.

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To hold; to keep; to possess.

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One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

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A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledg…

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The lapwing.

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One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

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One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

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The buttock.

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To carry, as a burden.

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To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

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See 2d Leach.

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One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.

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One of the Polifera.

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One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

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