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Water

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Narrower term 31

Backwater 76% connected

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 across a river b…

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Bay 76% connected

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

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Bilge 76% connected

The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

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Brine 76% connected

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor result…

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Briny 76% connected

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Crossing 76% connected

of Cross

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Dishwater 76% connected

Water in which dishes have been washed.

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Drink 76% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Embayment 76% connected

A bay.

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Estuary 76% connected

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

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Flowage 76% connected

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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Ford 76% connected

A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.

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Gulf 76% connected

A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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Inlet 76% connected

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.

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Lake 76% connected

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder…

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Limewater 76% connected

Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.

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Main 76% connected

A hand or match at dice.

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Ocean 76% connected

The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.

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Offing 76% connected

That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the s…

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Pool 76% connected

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…

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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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Sea 76% connected

One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part…

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Shallow 76% connected

Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

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Shoal 76% connected

A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.

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Slush 76% connected

Soft mud.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Waterfall 76% connected

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

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Waterway 76% connected

Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scu…

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Broader term 19

Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Excrement 76% connected

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges;…

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Excreta 76% connected

Matters to be excreted.

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Excretion 76% connected

The act of excreting.

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Facility 76% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Food 76% connected

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; alim…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Installation 76% connected

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained mini…

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Liquid 76% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Nutrient 76% connected

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Secrete 76% connected

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Wet 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Hose 76% connected

of Hose

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Hush 76% connected

To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

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Irrigation 74% connected

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plan…

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Irrigation 74% connected

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plan…

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Waterer 74% connected

One who, or that which, waters.

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Waterer 74% connected

One who, or that which, waters.

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Containing whole 2

Base 70% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Surface 70% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Containing substance 7

Flake 70% connected

A paling; a hurdle.

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Ice 70% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Perspiration 70% connected

The act or process of perspiring.

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Snowflake 70% connected

A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

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Sweat 70% connected

of Sweat

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Tear 70% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Water ice 70% connected

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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H 70% connected

The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.

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Hydrogen 70% connected

A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use…

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O 70% connected

Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expresse…

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Oxygen 70% connected

A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and ab…

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Component part 1

Reservoir 70% connected

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal,…

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Synonym 6

Irrigate 92% connected

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

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Pee 92% connected

See 1st Pea.

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Piddle 92% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

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Piss 92% connected

To discharge urine, to urinate.

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Urine 92% connected

In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

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Water supply 92% connected

A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

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