Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vapor-bath, or any other means for conveying heat to the body.
- noun See
estuary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
estuary .
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Examples
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The Clyde we left a little on our left-hand at Dunbritton, where it widens into an aestuary or frith, being augmented by the influx of the Leven.
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While the friar was singing, Marian was meditating: and when he had ended she said, "Honest friar, you have misplaced your tradition, which belongs to the aestuary of a nobler river, where the damsel was swept away by the rising of the tide, for which your land-flood is an indifferent substitute.
Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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