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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Estuaries

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[L.

aestuarium

, from

aestuare

to surge. See

[Written also

æstuary

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

[Obs.]

Boyle.

A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

it to the sea was often by long and wide

estuaries

Dana.

Adj.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary;

as,

estuary

strata

Lyell.

Noun.

[L. oestuarium, from oestuo, to boil or foam, oestus, heat, fury, storm.]

An arm of the sea; a frith; a narrow passage, or the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current, or flows and ebbs.

A vapor-bath.