- Old document - Olden paper - Skin-like paper - Writing material - The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other
animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. - The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
- Able to soak up liquid - Like blotting paper - Sponge-like - Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. - Anything which absorbs. - 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. - The vessels by which the processes of absorption are
carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots
in plants.