The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellows \Yel"lows\, n.
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(Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows.
--Shak. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
(Zo["o]l.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.
Reformade \Ref`or*made"\ (r?f`?r*m?d"), n. A reformado. [Obs.]
Fract \Fract\ (fr[a^]kt), v. t. [L. fractus, p. p. of frangere
to break.]
To break; to violate. [Obs.]
--Shak.
bonelet \bonelet\ n. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear.
Syn: ossicle, ossiculum.
Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
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To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.
--Paley.
papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.) A tall herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also Cohosh.
Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides.
Cohosh \Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Act[ae]a, plants of the Crowfoot family.
Divertise \Di*vert"ise\, v. t. [F. divertir, p. pr.
divertissant.]
To divert; to entertain. [Obs.]
--Dryden.
Sportule \Spor"tule\ (-t[=u]l), n. [L. sportula a little basket,
a gift, dim. of sporta a basket: cf. F. sportule.]
A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a
largess; a sportula. [Obs.]
--Ayliffe.
Stoor \Stoor\, v. i. [Cf. D. storen to disturb. Cf. Stir.] To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]
Stoor \Stoor\, Stor \Stor\, a. [AS. st[=o]r; akin to LG. stur, Icel. st[=o]rr.] Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]
O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
--Chaucer.
Automaton \Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L. Automata, E. Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See Mean, v. i.]
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Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
--Huxley.So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
--Boyle.These living automata, human bodies.
--Boyle. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
Printing out \Printing out\ (Photog.) A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
Peccantly \Pec"cant*ly\, adv. In a peccant manner.
burn out \burn out\ v. i.
To burn till the fuel is exhausted; as, when the candle burned out the room was totally dark; the firefighters couldn't control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself.
To stop functioning due to failure of some component caused by the heat of the electrical current used in its operation; -- of electrical devices.
To become apathetic or depressed, and cease to function effectively, due to the fatigue and frustration of prolonged stress and overwork; -- of people; as, the stress in the bond market is so great that many traders burn out after only ten years on the job.
Travois \Tra`vois"\, n. [Cf. Travail.]
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A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.
On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments.
--Julian Ralph. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]
Unspike \Un*spike"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + spike.] To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
Pressure wires \Pressure wires\ (Elec.) Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding.] [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + d[a^]re (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do.]
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To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
The marmot absconds all winter.
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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond.
--Macaulay.
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t.
To hide; to conceal. [Obs.]
--Bentley.
Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]
To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
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To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal.
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To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new.
--Tennyson.To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger.
--Sir W. Scott.
Butterbird \But"ter*bird`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
Street \Street\ (str[=e]t), n. [OE. strete, AS. str[=ae]t, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew, and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.]
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Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field.
--Coverdale.At home or through the high street passing.
--Milton.Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare.
His deserted mansion in Duke Street.
--Macaulay. the roadway of a street[1], as distinguished from the sidewalk; as, children playing in the street.
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the inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole street knew about their impending divorce. The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds. on the street,
homeless.
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unemployed. (a) not in prison, or released from prison; the murderer is still on the street.
Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc.
Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street.
street person, a homeless person; a vagrant.
Syn: See Way.
Arab \Ar"ab\ (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Se
Ar. Arab, He
arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. ?.] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, et
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Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl.
--Tylor.The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways.
--Lon Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster] ||
Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, a. [L. quintus fifth: cf. F. quintuple, L. quintuplex. Cf. Quadruple.] Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]
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To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Supper gobbled up in haste.
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To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
--Goldsmith.To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]
Alluvium \Al*lu"vi*um\, n.; pl. E. Alluviums, L. Alluvia.
[L., neut. of alluvius. See Alluvious.] (Geol.)
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported
matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land
not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or
seas.
--Lyell.
Degree \De*gree"\, n. [F. degr['e], OF. degret, fr. LL. degradare. See Degrade.]
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A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.]
By ladders, or else by degree.
--Rom. of R. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. ``A dame of high degree.''
--Dryden. ``A knight is your degree.''
--Shak. ``Lord or lady of high degree.''
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Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.
The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places.
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Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall.
Note: In the United States diplomas are usually given as the evidence of a degree conferred. In the humanities the first degree is that of bachelor of arts (B. A. or A. B.); the second that of master of arts (M. A. or A. M.). The degree of bachelor (of arts, science, divinity, law, etc.) is conferred upon those who complete a prescribed course of undergraduate study. The first degree in medicine is that of doctor of medicine (M. D.). The degrees of master and doctor are also conferred, in course, upon those who have completed certain prescribed postgraduate studies, as doctor of philosophy (Ph. D.); the degree of doctor is also conferred as a complimentary recognition of eminent services in science or letters, or for public services or distinction (as doctor of laws (LL. D.) or doctor of divinity (D. D.), when they are called honorary degrees.
The youth attained his bachelor's degree, and left the university.
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(Genealogy) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.
In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law.
--Hallam. (Arith.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.
(Algebra) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a^ 2b^ 3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax^ 4 + bx^ 2 = c, and mx^ 2y^ 2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.
(Trig.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.
A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.
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(Mus.) A line or space of the staff.
Note: The short lines and their spaces are added degrees.
Accumulation of degrees. (Eng. Univ.) See under Accumulation.
By degrees, step by step; by little and little; by moderate advances. ``I'll leave it by degrees.''
--Shak.Degree of a curve or Degree of a surface (Geom.), the number which expresses the degree of the equation of the curve or surface in rectilinear co["o]rdinates. A straight line will, in general, meet the curve or surface in a number of points equal to the degree of the curve or surface and no more.
Degree of latitude (Geog.), on the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles.
Degree of longitude, the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles -- a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles.
To a degree, to an extreme; exceedingly; as, mendacious to a degree.
It has been said that Scotsmen . . . are . . . grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess.
--Prof. Wilson.
Subpericardial \Sub*per`i*car"di*al\, a. (Anat.) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.
Adenoid \Ad"e*noid\, Adenoidal \Ad`e*noid"al\a. Glandlike; glandular.
aquilegia \aquilegia\ n. 1. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; N temperate regions esp. mountains.
Syn: columbine, aquilege
Neglectingly \Neg*lect"ing*ly\, adv.
Carelessly; heedlessly.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (blue mussel English)
n. 1 (plural of yellow English) 2 (context archaic English) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes. 3 (context archaic English) A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaf turn a yellowish colour. vb. (en-third-person singular of: yellow)
a. (alternative form of clusterized English)
n. (plural of adoptability English)
vb. (en-simple past of: go to bed)
n. (diving mask English)
n. (context obsolete English) A reformado.
a. cryptanalytic
n. (plural of planeful English)
a. energetic; pushy. (from 19th c.)
vb. (context obsolete English) To break; to violate.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
n. (leading rein English)
n. (context chiefly Internet slang English) An intimidatingly large block of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks.
n. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
n. (plural of phytoreovirus English)
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build. 2 (context transitive English) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 3 (context transitive English) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 4 (context transitive cooking English) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
n. (context slang derogatory English) A cigarette.
vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To divert; to entertain.
a. (alternative spelling of alveolopalatal English)
n. (context obsolete English) A charitable gift or contribution; alms; a sportula.
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A gush of water. 3 (context UK dialectal English) spray. 4 (context UK dialectal English) A sufficient quanity of yeast for brewing. vb. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. Etymology 2
(alternative form of stour English)
vb. (en-pastfeed out of)
n. (plural of climatography English)
vb. (context transitive English) to make more shiny, attractive or elegant.
n. (plural of vergeboard English)
a. Not semisimple.
n. (plural of abortus English)
vb. 1 To vacate one's place of residence or employment. 2 To leave one's present location.
adv. In a peccant manner.
a. (context idiomatic English) Traveling; out; moving; engaged in regular day to day activities.
n. An oligomer having fourteen subunits
n. One who is converted.
vb. (present participle of work out English)
vb. (en-pastdish out)
n. (alternative spelling of robber baron English)
vb. 1 To extinguish due to lack of fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) To tire due to overwork. 3 (context idiomatic English) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
vb. (archaic spelling of grow English)
a. (alternative form of à la carte English) adv. (alternative form of à la carte English)
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To produce (a message, rhythm, or other thing) by tapping. 2 (context combat sports English) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly either on the arena or the opponent's body. 3 (context combat sports transitive English) To force (an opponent) to submit. 4 To deplete, especially of a liquid
alt. (context simile colloquial English) enthusiastically, to an excessive degree. phr. (context simile colloquial English) enthusiastically, to an excessive degree.
vb. To recruit to less than the normal or preferable degree
adv. (context idiomatic English) Using the voice; not silently; aloud.
n. (obsolete form of bobance English)
vb. To short circuit.
vb. (en-pastbrown out)
n. A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse.
vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To become blank.
n. (bonded labour English)
n. 1 (context music English) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. 2 (context poetry English) The last six lines of a poem.
vb. (present participle of deaverage English)
vb. (context idiomatic English) To beat someone very severely.
pre. egg, ovum
vb. (en-pastwatch out)
adv. In a place where one cannot see it.
vb. (en-past of: guts out)
vb. To remove a spike from.
vb. 1 to extinguish by stamping. 2 (context idiomatic English) To totally get rid of; to eradicate.
alt. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position. n. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position.
vb. (present participle of bling out English)
vb. 1 (context intransitive reflexive archaic English) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment. 2 (context intransitive reflexive English) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution. (From mid 16th century.) 3 (context intransitive English) To withdraw from. (From mid 16th century.)(R:SOED5: page=8) 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To conceal; to take away. (First attested in the late 16th century.)
n. (context pejorative English) A word used to qualify a statement so as to make it potentially misleading. vb. To use weasel words.
vb. 1 To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit 2 (context linguistics transitive English) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
n. (plural of transient English)
adv. 1 (context manner English) In a manner that one does not believe. 2 (context degree English) To an extent not to be believed. 3 (context evaluative English) Contrary to expectations, amazingly.
n. (plural of baren English)
n. (plural of snickering English)
a. Able to be conjured.
vb. to walk out of a place stealthily
n. (context grammar English) A compound word combined using hyphens, such as get-together, half-baked, two-tone, or broad-minded.
vb. (en-pasthash out)
n. (context Jamaica English) The bobolink.
n. (context dated now offensive English) A homeless child who roams the streets, usually begging for handouts; a street urchin.
a. Having a size measured in nanometers
n. An antihypertensive drug related to reserpine.
n. (plural of sorel English)
n. (plural of diabetic English)
n. (alternative spelling of crithomancy English)
alt. (context poetic English) beneath. prep. (context poetic English) beneath.
n. (context biology taxonomy English) The scientific name of a genus may be called the generic name or generic epithet: it is always capitalized.
n. (plural of icosasphere English)
prov. A lack of information about a situation suggests that nothing bad has happened.
n. (news anchor English)
n. (plural of gippo English)
vb. (en-past of: gobble)
a. (context slang chiefly UK English) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded
n. (plural of alluvium English)
a. (alternative spelling of hi-tech English)
n. (plural of holour English)
a. (context organic chemistry English) having a structure based upon a quinone n. (context organic chemistry English) any substance whose structure is based upon a quinone
n. (plural of sophrologist English)
a. (obsolete form of ecstatic English)
vb. To be divulged; to be made public.
prep.phr. To an extreme; exceedingly.
a. (context anatomy English) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.
n. Money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Pertaining to the adenoids 2 (context of a voice English) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids
n. (plural of snick English)
n. (plural of ungeld English)
n. 1 turn; contour; figure 2 Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
n. (plural of transliteration English)
adv. Carelessly; heedlessly.
Usage examples of "neglectingly".
But, to say the truth, there is a more simple and plain method of accounting for that prodigious superiority of penetration which we must observe in some men over the rest of the human species, and one which will serve not only in the case of lovers, but of all others.
In plain English this means that the ancient Maya had a far more accurate understanding of the true immensity of geological time, and of the vast antiquity of our planet, than did anyone in Britain, Europe or North America until Darwin propounded the theory of evolution.
I still somewhat work for them, despite my advisements to the contrary, and the plain fact is that I do mediate.
Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed.
Beside all this, Roderic had had communicated to him, by a supernatural afflatus, that wondrous art, as yet unknown in the plains of Albion, of turning up the soil with a share of iron, and scattering it with a small quantity of those grains which are most useful to man, to expect to gather, after a short interval, a forty-fold increase.
Alex, recalling his recent experience with Jeena, was suspicious at first, but it soon became plain that the allopathist had only curiosity, not longing, for the subject.
The iron foundry of one of the most famous gun manufacturers in all the Punjab and the Indus basin which meant in all India was located on this flat and featureless alluvial plain.
Malarial swamps and sand dunes shifted alternately over the land as the twin rivers ran wild over the alluvial plain.
Then they would have seen the cultivated alluvial flood plains in the distance, not at all the way Hausner had seen it from the flight deck of Concorde 02, but it must have looked inviting, even though they knew it was the place of their bondage.
The wind had dropped, and he could see only an occasional line of dust clouds racing across the flat alluvial plains.
Under the direction of the Asiatic immigrants and of the eugineering science whose first home had been in the alluvial plain of Babylonia, they accomplished those great works of irrigation which confined the Nile to its present channel, which cleared away the jungle and the swamp that had formerly bordered the desert, and turned them into fertile fields.
If on any river which winds through alluvial plains a jetty is so constructed as to deflect the stream at any point, the course which it follows will be altered during its subsequent flow, it may be, for the distance of hundreds of miles.
When the stream rises, the sediment settles in this tangle, and soon extends the alluvial plain from the neighbouring bank, or in rarer cases the river comes to flow on either side of an island of its own construction.
When this result is accomplished, the old curve is deserted, sand bars are formed across their mouths, which may gradually grow to broad alluvial plains, so that the long-surviving, crescent-shaped lake, the remnant of the river bed, may be seen far from the present course of the ever-changing stream.
Already the wheels of the wagon were making deep ruts on the wide plains, covered with blackish alluvium, as it passed on between tufts of luxuriant grass and fresh fields of gastrolobium.