Sponge

spunj, n. the porous framework of an annual, found attached to rocks, &.c. under water, remarkable for its power of sucking up water an instrument for cleaning cannon aftet a discharge the heel of a horse’s shoe —r to wipe with a sponge to wipe out with a sponge to wipe out completely to destroy —v to suck in, as a sponge: to gain by mean tricks [A S O. Fr. esponge (Fr. pponge' — L spengta -(ir. sponggin, sponggns Doublet Fungus