ppl. a. Also 5 spounged, 7 spunged. [f. SPONGE sb.1 or v.]

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  † 1.  Of a spongy texture; porous. Obs.–1

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIV. xxxii. (Bodl. MS.). Þouȝ cragges be neuer so hard and rouȝe and scharpe wiþoute, ȝitte wiþin þei beþ sondele sponged [1495 spounged] and holowȝe.

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  2.  Saturated with moisture like a sponge.

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1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. xii. 31. Who can but thinke what a nastie Beast he is in his drunkennesse,… how like a nated Sop spunged, euen to the cracking of a skinne?

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  3.  Wiped or cleansed with a sponge.

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1871.  Browning, Pr. Hohenst., Poet. Wks. 1897, II. 296/1. The old plan saved, instead of a sponged slate And fresh-drawn figure?

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