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wady
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wady \Wad"y\, n.; pl. Wadies. [Ar. w[=a]d[=i] a valley, a channel of a river, a river.] A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Wiktionary
n. (archaic spelling of wadi English)
Usage examples of "wady".
He has cleared out the sand from one of the temples, and found there eleven slabs with figures of a king making offerings to the god Horus of Behen or Wady Halfah in a chamber in front of the Hall of Columns.
Thence the regular coralline bank, whose beach is the Bab, runs some distance down coast, allowing passage to our ugly old friend, Wady Salma.
Wady Halfa, across the desert, towards the elbow of the great bend from Dongola to Abu Hamed.
The general appearance is that of an ergastulum like Umm Amil: here perhaps the ore was crushed and smelted, when not rich enough to be sent down the Wady for water-working at the place where the inland fort now is.
Some ugly divides led us, after half an hour, to a broad Fiumara, well grown with palm-bush, the veritable Wady el-Ghal.
Wady el-Samnah, the unimportant Fiumara draining low hills of the same name.
Half an hour more placed us at the great Wady, whose general direction is here west with a little southing, and which still merits its fame as an Arabian Arcadia.
Meanwhile the caravan continued its course down the broad smooth Wady Ruways, on whose left side was a large atelier, with broken walls and spalled quartz of the Negro variety.
In the re-entering angles of the subjacent Wady the thrust of a stick is everywhere followed by the reappearance of stored-up rain, and the sole shows a large puddle of brackish and polluted water.
Each has its huge white Wady, striping the country in alternation with dark-brown divides, and trending coastwards in the usual network.
The three heads, projected westwards from the Umm Furut peak and then trending northwards, form a lateral valley, a bay known as Wady el-Kaimah.
We followed the long slope trending to the Wady el-Kurr, which drains the notable block of that name.
Presently, crossing a divide marked by two stone-heaps, we fell into the broader but equally unpicturesque Wady Salma.
Arabs, represents, topographically speaking, a bulge in the Wady Nejd, before it becomes the Wady Abu Daumah, between the Shafah Mountains to the east and the Tihamah range seawards.
Whilst the caravan was ordered to march straight up the noble Wady Surr, we set off next morning at six a.