(Protestantism) The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
(uncountable) Gospel music.
(uncountable) That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To instruct in the gospel.
gossep
gropes
gropes
noun
plural of grope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grope
pageos
pengos
pengos
noun
plural of pengo
pogeys
pogeys
noun
plural of pogey
pogies
pogies
noun
plural of pogie
spogel
sponge
sponge
noun
(baking) 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.
(countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
(countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
(countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
(countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.
(informal) A heavy drinker.
(slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
(slang) 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).
(uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
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 from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
verb
(intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
(intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
(marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
(transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
(transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.