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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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SPUNGE, n. L., Gr.
1. A porous marine substance, found adhering to rocks, shells, &c. Under water, and on rocks about the shore at low water. It is generally supposed to be of animal origin, and consists of a fibrous reticulated substance, covered by a soft gelatinous matter, but in which no polypes have hitherto been observed. It is so porous as to imbibe a great quantity of water, and is used for various purposes in the arts and in surgery.
2. In gunnery, an instrument for cleaning cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with lamb skin. For small guns, it is commonly fixed to one end of the handle of the rammer.
3. In the manege, the extremity or point of a horse-shoe, answering to the heel.
Pyrotechnical spunge, is made of mushrooms or fungi, growing on old oaks, ash, fir, &c. which are boiled in water, dried and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match or tinder brought from Germany.
SPUNGE,
1. To wipe with a wet spunge as, to spunge a slate.
2. To wipe out with a spunge, as letters or writing.
3. To cleanse with a spunge as, to spunge a cannon.
4. To wipe out completely to extinguish or destroy.
SPUNGE,
1. To suck in or imbibe, as a spunge.
2. To gain by mean arts, by intrusion or hanging on as an idler who spunges on his neighbor.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Spunge'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/spunge.html.
Entry for 'Spunge'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/spunge.html.