A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.
Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.
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