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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.
  2. n. Any of several Old World trees of the genus Sorbus in the rose family, as the service tree or the rowan.
  3. n. The fruit of any of these plants.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The service-tree, Pyrus (Sorbus) domestica. The wild service-tree, Pyrus torminalis, is included under the name by Gerard, and is also often so called in more recent times. The mountain-ash, P. aucuparia, and other species of the old genus Sorbus are also likely to have been so called.
  2. n. The fruit of any of the above-named trees.
  3. n. A member of a Slavic race resident in Saxony and adjoining parts of Prussia. Also called Wend, or Lusatian Wend.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe.
  2. n. The rowan tree.
  3. n. The fruit of either of these trees.
  4. v. chemistry To absorb or adsorb.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
  2. n. The fruit of these trees.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
  2. n. acid gritty-textured fruit

Etymologies

  1. From Latin sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; compare French sorbe. See service tree. (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from absorb and adsorb.French sorbe, sorb fruit, from Old French sourbe, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, from Latin sorbum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Typhoid epizootic sorb increased depends upon srm-rhotard vaccine.”

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  • “He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility.”

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  • “Who begat Gayoffo, whose ballocks were of poplar, and his pr ... of the service or sorb-apple-tree;”

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  • “She aligned her body to his and gradually let him ab sorb her wei "How's that?" he asked in her ear.”

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  • “Heah's de Poteland niggahs cravin 'to' sorb fish mawnin ', night, an' noon.”

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  • “He possessed neither a sorb nor a third arm -- so presumably he was not a native of Ifdawn.”

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  • “When he realised with whom he had to deal, Crimtyphon left off smiling, slipped off the couch, and threw a terrible and malignant glare into his sorb.”

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  • “She stood upright, and her sorb suddenly blazed with fire.”

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  • “His long, curling hair matched his sorb -- it was violet.”

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  • “Her sorb was black and sad -- rather contemplative.”

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  1. wend
  2. sorb-tree
  1. Wend
  2. sorbus
  1. Sorbian
  2. pyrus
  1. sorb apple
  2. sorbic
  1. sorbin
  2. sorbite
  1. wild service

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