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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.]

fermentable 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.

A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.

o cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham (Chemistry).

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. Kerr.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

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.

One who, or that which, absorbs.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.