imbibition

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If it be summer, there should be a lump of ice in the crystal goblet; and the connoisseur will always hold it between him and the sunlight before imbibition, and ejaculate, "There's a picture!"

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

The most jovial of the celebrants tells of his early imbibition of red ink.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

The fluid finds its way between the epithelial cells in the deeper layers, apparently being taken into some of the superficial cells by imbibition.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

But the most remarkable and interesting case of this kind of action is the imbibition of oxygen by metallic platinum.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

I mean to tinct C in sand-heat to-morrow, And give him imbibition.

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben