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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 7 of 8)

    To rain, rain hard, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, mizzle, set in.

    To flow into, fall into, open into, discharge itself, disembogue, disgorge, meander.

    (Phrases). To rain cats and dogs; to rain in torrents.

    To cause a flow, to pour, drop, distil, splash, squirt, spill, drain, empty, discharge, pour out, open the sluices or flood-gates; shower down, irrigate 337.

    To stop a flow, to stanch, dam, dam up 261, intercept.

    (Adjectives). Fluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, etc., babbling, bubbling, gurgling, meandering.

    Fluviatile, fluvial, riverine, streamy, showery, drizzly, rainy, pluvial, pouring.

  • Air in motion.
  • Wind (Substantives), draught, flatus, afflatus, breath, air, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, drift, aura.

    Gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, blizzard, simoom, samiel, harmattan, monsoon, trade-wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontana, föhn, pampero; windiness, ventosity.

    Anemometer, anemograph, wind-guage.

    (Phrase). A capful of wind.

    Insufflation, sufflation, perflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, blowing up, inflation, afflation, respiration, inspiration, expiration, sneezing, sternutation.

    Æolus, Boreas, Auster, the cave of Æolus.

    Bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punka.

    (Verbs). To blow, waft, blow hard, blow a hurricane, breathe, respire, inspire, expire, insufflate, puff, whiff, sough, whiffle, wheeze, snuffle, sniffle, sneeze, cough.

    To fan, ventilate, inflate, perflate, blow up.

    (Phrase). To blow great guns.

    (Adjectives). Blowing, etc., windy, breezy, gusty, squally, puffy, stormy, tempestuous, blustering.

  • Channel for the passage of water.
  • Conduct (Substantives), channel, duct, watercourse, watershed, race, adit, aqueduct, canal, sluice, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, lode, leat, rhine, trough, gutter, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, pipe, emunctory, gully-hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, ajutage, waste-pipe, hose, gargoyle, artesian well.

    Flood-gate, dam, water-gate, lock, valve.

  • Channel for the passage of air.
  • Air-pipe (Substantives), air-tube, shaft, flue, chimney, vent, blow-hole, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea, windpipe, spiracle, ventiduct.

    Ventilator, louvre, register.