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A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang]

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young.

The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

The quality or state of being spongy. Dr. H. More.

a. & n. from Sponge, v. Sponging house (Eng. Law), a bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc.

The state or quality of being springly. Boyle.

Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Ps. lxv. 10. Springing line of an arch (Arch.), the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also spring of an arch.

A purging. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

An engine moved by steam.

The quality or state of being stingy.

flicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke. -- Sting"ing*ly, adv. Stinging cell. (Zoöl.) Same as Lasso cell, under Lasso.

Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

Quality of being stringy.

Partially cartilaginous.

Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.

Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast. [Obs.]

Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.

A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.