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Spongy   /spˈəndʒi/   Listen
adjective
Spongy  adj.  
1.
Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
2.
Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April."
3.
Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Spongy lead (Chem.), sponge lead. See under Sponge.
Spongy platinum. See under Platinum.





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"Spongy" Quotes from Famous Books



... began work on the bed, but he knelt and among the damp leaves from the spongy black earth he lifted the roots with his fingers and carefully straightened and pressed down the plants he did not take. This required more time than usual, but his heart was so sore he could not be rough ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter
... number may affright. Some virgin sure (For so I can distinguish by mine art) Benighted in these woods! Now to my charms, And to my wily trains: I shall ere long Be well stocked with as fair a herd as grazed About my mother Circe. Thus I hurl My dazzling spells into the spongy air, Of power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentments, lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment, And put the damsel to suspicious flight; Which must not be, for that's against my course. I, under fair ...
— L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas • John Milton
... partake of this increase, but become flat and hard, the substance of the gland losing its spongy structure. The legs and arms lose their roundness of outline, and, where they do not grow fat, dry up, and resemble those of the other sex. The abdomen enlarges, even to the extent occasionally of leading the wife to believe that she is to ...
— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys
... for the strawberries, to notice any particular mark by which they might regain it. Just when they began to think of returning, Louis noticed a beaten path, where there seemed recent prints of cattle hoofs on a soft spongy soil beyond the creek. ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill
... ensuing night the rain descended in torrents, rendering the spongy ground on which we had bivouacked very much the reverse of a desirable resting-place. In vain I waited for an improvement in the weather, which only became worse and worse; and eventually I started in pursuit of that portion of the troops which had left at early dawn in charge ...
— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot


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