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

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.

The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

Absorptiveness.

The act or process of rearbsorbing.

Absorptiveness.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Absorption. [Obs.]

Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

utriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

ning to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

d so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

nimal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; -- opposed to exothermic.

readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

ently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

Softening and absorption of bone. -- Os`te*o*lyt"ic (#), a.