WATER. IV.
IV To the word WATER, as it denotes the watry part of this Terre∣strial Globe, may be adjoyned the word SEA, Marine, Maritim; which de∣notes the more general name of the greater parts of Water, as Country or Region does of Land.
The more considerable Notions under this Head may be distinguished as the other, with respect to its
figures
Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave
- AEQUOR, Calm Sea, Smooth Sea.
- WAVE, Billow, Surge, Vndulation, Rough.
- WHIRL-POOL, Vorago, Gulf, Swallow.
Boundaries, or adjacent Land; which is either
- On all sides, whether
- Great, more great, or less great.
- OCEAN, Main-sea.
- LAKE, Meer, Pond, Plash.
- Less, whether obround and deep, or oblong.
- WELL, Head.
- SPRING, Fountain, Source, Rivulet.
- On three sides, greater, or less.
- BAY, Gulf, Creek, Arm of the Sea, Harbour, Port, Key.
- PENE-LAKE, Haven, Harbour, Port, Key.
- On two sides, greater, or less
- FRETUM, Streight, Narrow sea, Sound.
- CHANNEL.
- On one side, either according to the more general name, or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower upon the Land.
- SHORE, Margo aquea.
- TIDE, Ebb, Flow, High-water, Low-water, Neap-tide, Spring-tide.
Motion or Rest; whether constantly moving, or generally at rest
- STREAM, River, Brook, Current, flow, pour, gush, Bourn, Rill, Rivulet, Eddy, Gullet, Flood, Deluge, Inundation, Torrent, Ca∣taract, Water-course, Running-water.
- STAGNUM, Pool, Puddle, Pond, stagnate, standing-water, Dead-water.
WATER. III.
III. The third of those greater Masses of Body, considerable for its Gra∣vity and Moisture,* is styled WATER: Aqueous, Dip, padle, Drein.
The names belonging to this are such as concern either
- ( Water + particle ) The smaller Particles of it; ‖ whether Solid, or Hollow.
- DROP, Drip, drible, drizle, trickle, sprinkle, run, shed, instil.
- BUBBLE, Froth, Spume, Fome, Mantle, Ebullition.
- ( Water + Air ) The Mixture of it with Air, ‖ Vpper, or Lower.
- CLOUD, Overcast, gloomy.
- MIST, Fogg, nebulous.
- ( Water + downward fork ) The Condensation of it, ‖ from a Cloud, or from a Mist.
- RAIN, Drizie.
- DEW.
- The Congelation of it, according to its more
- General acception, or according to that special kind of it relating to the smaller particles of a Cloud, styled
- FROST, Freeze, Ice, congele, Isicle.
- SNOW.
- Particular restriction to the Drops ‖ of Rain, or of Dew.
- HAIL.
- RIME, Hoar•frost.
- The Kinds of Dew:
- More Concrete; of a sweet tast: to which may be adjoyned that pe∣culiar kind of physical Dew mixed with the Exudations of the Plant Ladanum.
- MANNA.
- LADANUM.
- More Liquid; gathered from Plants by Bees: to which may be ad∣joyned for its affinity, that other natural Body gathered likewise by Bees, and of a clammy consistence.
- HONY.
- WAX.