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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.

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

Scurry. [Obs.] Purchas.

taining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.

Scurvy.

A globefish.

Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.

The fruit of these trees. Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree. -- Sorb tree, the wild service tree.

A salt of sorbic acid.

Producing absorption. -- n.

An absorbent. [R.]

A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smolett.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C

Fit to be drunk or sipped. [Obs.]

ermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.

A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic, a.

The act of drinking or sipping. [Obs.]

Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. Bale.