The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
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winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
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A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.Alt. of Breeze fly
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or wave…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chino…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drop…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It correspon…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a wave of unusually hot weather
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularl…
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A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lyin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," t…
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