sponge

• ask for and get free
• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework
• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
• erase with a sponge
• soak up with a sponge
• gather sponges, in the ocean
• Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera
• The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies
• One who lives upon others
• Any spongelike substance
• 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
• Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition
• Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked
• 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
• The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel
• To cleanse or wipe with a sponge
• To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing
• Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition
• Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost
• To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge
• Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on
• To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven

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