Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with water, as a stratum which will yield an artesian flow or a series of springs.
- noun A journal-box having in the lower part a groove communicating with a pipe through which water under heavy pressure is admitted beneath the journal, which it. raises slightly from its bearings.
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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It's possible, experts say, that the water-bearing bombs were some type of comet or meteorite with just the right deuterium and gas ratios.
Earth contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins Ben Harder 2010
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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Gulfsands has announced that the first target reservoir in the Lambouka-1 exploration well offshore Tunisia appears to be water-bearing.
BP falls on legal action worries as FTSE struggles for direction 2010
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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Still in early planning and fundraising stages, it will ultimately be a water-bearing hospital -- a convalescent home with liquid appointments.
Tibby Rothman: Wing House Architect Is Ocean Bound: Hertz to Design Water Hospital for Marine Mammals Tibby Rothman 2010
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As gases are released, they will waft into an adjoining chamber where lasers will determine the concentrations of water, carbon dioxide and water-bearing minerals in the Martian soil.
The Search For Life 2008
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In Willett's skilled hands, digging for potash through the water-bearing Blairmore formation sounds like an adventure novel.
Archive 2006-12-10 Edward Willett 2006
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