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Word Meanings - SEWAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers 2. Sewerage, 2.

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  • CARRIBOO
    See CARIBOU
  • CARRIABLE
    Capable of being carried.
  • DRAINE
    The missel thrush.
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • CARRION
    1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
  • REFUSE
    To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. 3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of;
  • MATTER-OF-FACT
    Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
  • SEWERAGE
    1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
  • MATTERY
    1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
  • DRAINTRAP
    See 5
  • DRAINPIPE
    A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
  • DRAINTILE
    A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
  • DRAINAGE
    The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. (more info) 1. A draining; a gradual
  • CONTENTS
    See N
  • SEWER
    A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana) (more info) 1. One who sews, or stitches.
  • CARRICK
    A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend , a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts , the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.
  • DRAINABLE
    Capable of being drained.
  • DRAIN
    1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
  • WATER DRAIN
    A drain or channel for draining off water.
  • SCARRING
    A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
  • TOP-DRAINING
    The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • TOP-DRAIN
    To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
  • MISCARRIAGEABLE
    Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
  • WELLDRAIN
    To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
  • CATCHDRAIN
    A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
  • GINNY-CARRIAGE
    A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
  • UNDERDRAIN
    An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
  • SMATTERING
    A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.

 

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