Crossword clues for dowsing
Wiktionary
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)
WordNet
n. searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse, rhabdomancy]
Wikipedia
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus. Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience, and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance.
Dowsing is also known as divining (especially in reference to interpretation of results), doodlebugging (particularly in the United States, in searching for petroleum) or (when searching specifically for water) water finding, water witching (in the United States) or water dowsing.
A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all.
Dowsing appears to have arisen in the context of Renaissance magic in Germany, and it remains popular among believers in Forteana or radiesthesia.
The motion of dowsing rods is nowadays generally attributed to the ideomotor effect.
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 racehorse
Dowse may refer to:
- Dowse (surname), a family name
- Dowse Art Museum, in Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Dowsing is an American emo band from Chicago, Illinois.
Dowsing (foaled 21 April 1984) was an American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter, he excelled over six furlongs and won four of his fourteen races between 1986 and 1988. After failing to win in two starts as juvrnile, Dowsing showed improved form is 1987 when he won three races including a valuable handicap at Doncaster Racecourse and the Diadem Stakes on his final appearance. In the following year he took time to reach his best form but again ended his season triumphantly as he recorded his biggest win in the Group One Vernons Sprint Cup.
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.