Absorbent

Absorbent - Other Definitions

• (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
  
  
• (n.) Anything which absorbs.
  
  
• (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
  
  
• (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.