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A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid.

See Selters water.

uffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.

The shearwater.

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

An acid. [Obs.]

Water for the cure of surfeits. [Obs.] Locke.

A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.

Water in a tailrace.

A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states.

A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy.…

A dangerous disease of sheep.

A kind of water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

e. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.