Crossword-Solution: ABSORBER 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

This suborganization serves as an admirable clearing house and shock-absorber and succeeds in eliminating much of the friction which occurs between the several unions.

Interminably he listened--a mile off a cat howled, a hundred yards away another took up the hymn in a demoniacal snarl, and he felt his heart dip and swoop, acting as shock-absorber for his mind.

Old Lady Dacier's bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.

What is the plan of action?" "I go a-fishing," said Roger; "and with me Willy, to take his first lesson in bass-fishing." "I tinker the wharf," said Phil; "and with me Obadiah, to take his first lesson in useful occupation." "Verily and in good sooth," put in Gerald, "the most useful occupation I can think of, my peripatetic food-absorber, would be to heave thee into the glassy deep." "Like to see you try it!" said Ferguson.

Were any substance a powerful radiator and at the same time a bad absorber, it would necessarily radiate faster than it would absorb, and its reduction of temperature would continue without limit.