SPRING (water)
ADJECTIVES
► QUELLY wet, full of springs → 1854 Eng. dial.
► QUICK of wells, springs, streams, or water: running, flowing → c1000
NOUNS
► BALNEARY a bath or bathing-place; a medicinal spring → 1646
► BALNEOLOGY the scientific study of bathing and medicinal springs → 1883
► BALNEOTHERAPY treatment of disease by baths or medicinal springs → 1888 (Bk.)
► BATH a spring of water (chiefly hot or impregnated with minerals) suitable for bathing → 864 obs.
► COYOTE WELL a usually hidden desert spring, a water hole → 1933 Amer. dial.
► HEAD the source or spring of a stream or river → 1879 Eng. dial.
► KELD ► KELL a well, a fountain, a spring; a deep, still, smooth part of a river → 1697 N. Eng. dial.
► LICK a spring or stream → 1945 Amer. dial.
► QUELL a spring, fountain → 1894
► QUICK-FRESH a spring in mossy ground → a1838 Sc.
► QUICK-SAND a spring in mossy ground → a1838 Sc.
► QUICK-SPRING a spring in mossy ground → a1838 Sc.
► QUILL a spring of water → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SEEP a place where water oozes out of the ground; a sluggish spring → 1881 Amer. dial.
► SEEP SPRING a place where water oozes out of the ground; a sluggish spring → 1901 Amer. dial.
► SIPE a small spring or pool of water → 1825 chiefly Sc.
► WALL a spring of water; a well → 1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WALM a gushing fort or upwelling of water; a spring, fountain, water-source; the water of such → a897 obs.
VERBS
► QUILL to bubble up as a fountain or spring → 1854 Eng. dial.
► WALL UP to spring up, as water → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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