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The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

One who, or that which, soaks.

Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.

Full of moisture; wet; soppy.

To stop; to choke.

To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

t to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

typtic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

esemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

To soak or drench. [Obs.]

g on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton.

The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.

The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.