One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
(stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
A porous material such as sponges consist of.
A heavy drinker.
A type of light cake.
A type of steamed pudding.
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).
A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
Any sponge-like substance.
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, corresponding to the heel.
A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.




