The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.
Black Turtle Bean Soup: Pick and wash clean, one quart black turtle beans, soak overnight in three quarts cold water, and put on to boil next morning in the soaking water.
For whatever is put in, and saved by salt, must be freed of the salt by long soaking before it is fit to eat.
The soaking process is the same for everything--take from brine, wash clean in tepid water, put to soak in cold water with something on top to hold the pickles down.
Everything was soaking wet, and all our efforts ended in smoke, except a few sulphurous remarks.
Did you ever try to find a place to rest when everything upon which you could possibly sit or lie was soaking wet?
It was hard work, and after he left, we took it by turns, soaking the corn when it became so dry as to shell from the cob.
The old commanderia was sufficiently sweet to occasion a roughness in the throat, and each quality was far too luscious for English taste, but might have been agreeable to sip like Tokay, by soaking a sponge biscuit.
The water streamed from the soaking wood of it as if it were not water at all, but some loathsome liquid corruption of the wood itself; as if the solid station were eternally falling to pieces and pouring away in filth.
But on this soaking afternoon, whether it was the dull sky-line of the Netherlands or the fact that we were returning home without any adventure, I really did think things a trifle dreary.
Living with Fiorsen was opening her eyes to much beside mere knowledge of "man's nature"; with her perhaps fatal receptivity, she was already soakingup the atmosphere of his philosophy.
The process is called retting, which is really rotting by soaking the stem in water.
The cloth when woven in the gray is fulled or shrunken in width by soaking in soapsuds and passing it while wet through holes of different sizes in a steel plate.
He kept to his quarters in the after cabin, sitting before the stovesoaking himself in whisky and hot water.
Another plan adopted by some growers, and with tolerable success, is to place squares of Osmunda fibre in pans, and after soaking them, sow the seed on them.
In spite of the commands of the segundo secretario, we started for the scene of the disturbance, but long before we reached the spot, met a big topil with his head cut open and blood streaming down his face, soaking his garments.
As dessert a great dish of fresh papaya cut up into squares and soaking in its own juice, was served.
On opening our small reserve, of which the mate had charge, I found that sad havoc had been made in the precious articles we had been so hopefully depending upon for comfort and consolation at the end of our soaking march.
I were obliged to keep all hands at the pumps, or, in other words, to fasten all available rags and wraps under our canvas, to keep out the soaking wet.
Soaking in cold water till the stains turn brown, then washing in warm water with soap is the usual treatment.
Sprinkling the stain with borax and soaking first in cold water facilitates the action of the boiling water.
The cleansing of laces is best accomplished by basting on strips of cheesecloth, fastening down each point, and soaking for some time in warm, soapy water.
It cannot stand a soaking rain for two weeks at a time; it cannot stand so much water and humidity but it wants dry, hot sunshine continuously from the time it puts out its leaves in the spring.
JONES: In our experience the soaking of wood does not injure it for budding, but it does for grafting.
The spores remain in the hides of animals which have died of anthrax and retain their vitality throughout months of soaking in the tanners' pits, the working of the harness maker or the cobbler, and after the oiling of the completed leather.
Dan handed him the captive’s clasp knife, and Nelson cut the soaking strings, and drew off the boot.
The oil crust on the surface is then loosened by soaking in a strong soda solution and wiped off, after which the object is dried, smoked over the candle flame, and the soot wiped or brushed off with a soft brush.
If the water used for soaking salt-containing limestone, earthenware, etc.
Personally I should prefer not to attempt a reduction process in such cases, but should rely rather upon mechanical removal of the rust, soaking and impregnation.
Should the removal prove difficult, and a preliminary trial have shown that it will bear the treatment, the removal of the deposits will be assisted by soaking for two or three days in water.
Everything was in disorder, wet and filthy; a huge soaking rag lay in the middle of the floor in the first room, and a battered old shoe lay beside it in the wet.
The tramp remained crawling on his knees in the mud, looking for the notes which were blown about by the wind and soaking in the puddles, and for an < hour after his spasmodic cries of "Ech!
The soaking branches drip, And all night through The dropping will not cease In the avenue.
Betty was toasting her soakingpumps from a chair before the fire.
A beam of light shot upward from his torch, and turning her head, she saw a sight that sent her heart down to the very tips of her ragged, soaking pumps.
