noun.
A slough.
noun.
In tanning, a tank or vat of water for soaking hides or skins.
To lie in and become saturated with water or some other liquid; steep.
To pass, especially to enter, as a liquid, through pores or interstices; penetrate thoroughly by saturation: followed by in or through.
To flow.
To drink intemperately and habitually, especially strong drink; booze; be continually under the influence of liquor.
To become drained or dry. Compare soak, v. t., 7.
To sit over the fire absorbing the heat.
Hence To receive a prolonged baking; bake thoroughly: said of bread.
To cause to lie immersed in a liquid until thoroughly saturated; steep: as, to soak rice in water; to soak a sponge.
To flood; saturate; drench; steep.
To take up by absorption; absorb through pores or other openings; suck in, as a liquid or other fluid: followed by in or up.
Hence, to drink; especially, to drink immoderately; guzzle.
To penetrate, work, or accomplish by wetting thoroughly: often with through.
To make soft as by steeping; hence, to enfeeble; enervate.
To suck dry; exhaust; drain.
To bake thoroughly: said of the lengthened baking given, in particular, to bread, so that the cooking may be complete.
To “put in soak”; pawn; pledge: as, he soaked his watch for ten dollars.
To place in a furnace, or soaking pit, with the object of equalizing the temperature rather than causing an increase: especially applied to ingots of steel which, soon after casting, have a solid exterior or shell and a molten interior, and are therefore unfit for rolling until solid and of a nearly uniform temperature throughout.
noun.
A soaking, in any sense of the verb.
noun.
Specifically, a drinking-bout; a spree.
noun.
That in which anything is soaked; a steep.
noun.
One who or that which soaks.
noun.
A landspring.
noun.
A tippler; a hard drinker.
noun.
An over-stocking, with or without a foot, worn over the long stocking for warmth or protection from dirt. Compare boot-hose, stirruphose.