What is "seepage"

Usage examples of "seepage".

Inside the Snake Den all was amorphous liquid mud, owing to the copious seepage.

Anchors and hell to pay with atmospherics, stream flow, and natural drainage and seepage.

Perhaps in a few months a slow seepage, rich in minerals, would return to these passages and gradually glue their bodies to the rocks where they sat, to seal their crypt and lapidify their bones.

Speedily, the bartender dragged the hooded creature back to a darker part of the alley, trailing a slight seepage of blood.

In that case the process, the seepage, is perhaps preconceptual, physiological, glandular.

It must have been through this thought seepage that I caught the first of his unprojected brain-images.

Yet the fact remains that many of the first wells were drilled at points of seepage on the eastern escarpment.

High on the right-hand slope of the gulch lay a notch, a little blind basin watered by the seepage from a sidehill spring, and there on the green bed of it a dozen cows with their calves grazed undisturbed.

Our Host was coarse teocentli cake, our precious Drink was muddy water from river seepage in a low hollow in our floor, but we felt spiritually encouraged and ready for our fate.

Some of the silty islets stayed in place several years, long enough for small trees to send down tenuous roots, only to be washed away at the vicissitude of seasonal flood or eroding seepage.

Typically, the seepages are tarry (asphaltlike), but a young seepage, or one warmed up by the sun, may become more liquid and flow.

No pooling of blood in the chest or abdominal cavity, either, though I was getting some seepage.

The interface is beginning to be affected by seepage of cerebrospinal fluid.

Gutters carved in the limestone spiraled down the walls so water seepage could run into deep drainage basins.

You aren't going to see dust devils at the downwind edge of a full parking lot, just a generalized seepage of dead and decayed wind.