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Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
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Dowsing may refer to: Dowsing , a method that attempts to locate ground water or other buried materials William Dowsing , an English iconoclast who lived during the 17th century Dowsing (band) , an emo band from Chicago, Illinois Dowsing (horse) , a Thoroughbred ...
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n. searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse , rhabdomancy ]
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n. The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power. vb. (present participle of dowse English)
Usage examples of dowsing.
For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.
The connection with dowsing is through the magnetic fields set up by electrofiltration currents, a phenomenon familiar to the physical chemist.
According to its Web site, Borderland currently specializes in alternative medicine, radionics, psychotronics, water technology, dowsing and radiesthesia, Tesla technology, and new energy.
With the discovery of the Western Aquifer the dowsing expeditions lost their urgency, and more emphasis was placed on tapping and pumping the aquifers already found, and constructing the infrastructure of the rim settlements.
Leona grasped Crybaby and pushed the dowsing rod firmly against Swan’s chest, then deliberately pulled her arm free from Swan’s fingers.
In fact, Cif and Pshawri felt rather on exhibition, for during the next couple of dowsings each of the newcomers had to see for themselves close up the wonder of the heavy cube cinder hanging out of true, straining away from the shaft head definitely though slightly.
After several dowsings of cold water, he had sufficiently recovered to attend to the resuscitation of his followers.
Denis, his dog hot behind him, cantered off down the street, barely able to keep up with his own dowsing rod.
Although divining has been around in various forms for millennia, the well-known forked stick method appears to have been devised in the mining districts of Germany (you can supposedly find minerals with a dowsing rod, too) in the late 15th or early 16th century.
He gestured with his stick, and I realized with faint amusement that it was a dowsing rod.
He had been intending to use it as a dowsing rod, but now observed that it was tingling as if with a mild electric current.
If one of us brought it up, I was usually the one who led the hooting and we all suggested he go over the search area with a dowsing rod.
The finger stopped, the tip still trembling minutely, like a dowsing rod at the edge of an aquifer.
Now they wondered if it might have been the presence of hidden treasure that had animated the slender dowsing rods.
Down in the field itself, Hayden McMasterson was having a splendid time with his dowsing rods.