The largest toe (usually) on each human foot (i.e. the toe closest to the other foot when the feet are flat on the ground, side by side, and the legs not crossed) or on a foot of certain other animals.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
A heavy drinker.
A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
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.
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 type of light cake.
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.
A person who readily absorbs ideas.
Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
A type of steamed pudding.
Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
A porous material such as sponges consist of.
A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To take advantage of the kindness of others.
To get by imposition; to scrounge.
To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.