saturating
present participle of saturate
• antitragus
Source: Wiktionary
Sat"u*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated; p. pr. & vb. n. Saturating.] Etym: [L. saturatus, p.p. of saturate to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]
1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.
2. (Chem.)
Definition: To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Sat"u*rate, p. a. Etym: [L. saturatus, p. p.]
Definition: Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked. Dries his feathers saturate with dew. Cowper. The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 March 2025
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
