Scour
81scourings — scour•ings [[t]ˈskaʊər ɪŋz, ˈskaʊ ər [/t]] n. pl. 1) dirt or refuse removed by scouring 2) refuse removed from grain • Etymology: 1580–90 …
82Olivier Souêtre — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Souvestre. Ol(l)ivier Marie Souêtre (forme de l état civil) ou Olivier Souvestre, né le 27 décembre 1831 à Plourin les Morlaix et mort le 30 décembre 1896 à Paris, est un poète et chansonnier breton. Il a… …
83iceberg — /uys berrg/, n. 1. a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea. 2. Informal. an emotionally cold person. 3. Australian Informal. a person who swims or surfs regularly in winter. 4. tip of the iceberg, the first… …
84river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …
85Jetty — For other uses, see Jetty (disambiguation). Malecón redirects here. For El Malecón in Havana, see Malecón, Havana. Coastal lagoons fronted by barrier spits typically have entrances that migrate through time. Here, the entrance has been fixed by… …
86River engineering — The Los Angeles River is extensively channelized with concrete embankments. River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.… …
87Feltex Carpets — Infobox Company company name = Feltex Carpets Ltd company company type = Public company {NZX:FTX} foundation = Sydney, Australia, AUS (1921) location = flagicon|AUS Tottenham, Melbourne, AUS industry = Carpet Manufacturing NZ Auckland Sales NZ… …
88seek — seek, *search, scour, hunt, comb, ferret out, ransack, rummage are comparable when they mean to look for or go in quest of in the hope of finding. Seek has become widely extended in application and may take as its object either a person or a… …
89Mary Rose — For later ships with the same name, see HMS Mary Rose. For the play by J.M. Barrie, see Mary Rose (play). The remnants of the Mary Rose undergoing conservation in Portsmouth …
90Natural History (Pliny) — Naturalis Historia, 1669 edition, title page. The title at the top reads: Volume I of the Natural History of Gaius Plinius Secundus. The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77–79 by Pliny the… …
