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An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

e stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet. "Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the do…

The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

See Disponge. [Obs.]

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

r shell (Zoöl.), a marine shell (Pholas dactylus) resembling a finger in form. -- Finger sponge (Zoöl.), a sponge having finger-shaped lobes, or branches. -- Finger stall, a cover or shield for a finger. -- Finger steel, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife. To burn one's fingers. See under Burn. -- To…

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy. [Scot.]

An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.

Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.