Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A series of porous strata which yield a supply of water to wells.

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Examples

  • Artistically viewed, it is one of the loveliest sheets of water I ever saw, -- bluer than the intensest blue of the ocean, and practically as impressive, since, looking from the southern shore, you see only a water-horizon.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • Soon we had to turn our backs upon a mystic mountain-land that ringed us in, and face the sea once more -- a wide water-horizon whose line was broken with great ships steaming from all parts of the world to

    Set in Silver 1901

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