soaking

The results will be much better if the soaking is allowed to take a whole night.

The skins are tanned by soaking the green hides in running water for one to four hours.

Thus, by walking arm in arm and keeping close together, they escaped a soaking.

The sparrows, too, were abroad in force, soaking their dust-coloured feathers in the limpid pool and chirping with might and main.

Pies should always be left so that a current of air will pass under them while cooling to keep the crust from soaking.

Soaking black-dyed goods in sour milk, is also good to set the color.

I then lay still and began to feel fearfully cold on account of the soaking wet clothes clinging to me.

As to the blinds, they are still half full of water—got soaking wet trying to use one.

They may also be steamed, either with or without sugar, omitting the soaking, until tender enough for a straw to pierce.

All the time a light rain was falling, and a soaking mist made the darkness more obscure.