The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.
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a steep descent of the water of a river
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underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.Running or moving rapidly.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy la…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Rivers, lakes and water.A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydr…
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Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old"…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A high, steep rock; a precipice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a ri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steep, descent, water, river.
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