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Absorption. [Obs.]

To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. Shak.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.

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.

To swallow up. Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed. Young.

Swallowing up. Wodhull.

Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Absorbed. [Arcahic.] "Absorpt in care." Pope.

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced…

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. -- a.

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

s of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

ing venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

ppropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Me…

bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.