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from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

s of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own…

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

est of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

riginal sin;" human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

ch the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

sage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Help; support; also, a helper. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aërate soil; to aërate water.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.