sponge

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Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum (taxfmt), that have a porous skeleton often of silica.

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A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
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A porous material such as sponges consist of.
A heavy drinker.
A type of light cake.
A type of steamed pudding.
A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
A person who readily absorbs ideas.
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A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a sponge|contraceptive sponge.
Any sponge-like substance.
Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
A power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
To advantage of the kindness of others.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)

(ux)

To get by imposition; to scrounge.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
July 17 1735, (w), ''letter to Lord Ornery''

I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening

To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons) to be sponged of their plate and their money?
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
(RQ:Hooker Laws)
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
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