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  • 21Well sweep — Well Well, n. [OE. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to D. wel a spring or fountain. ????. See {Well}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. [1913 Webster] Begin, then,… …

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  • 22Well water — Well Well, n. [OE. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to D. wel a spring or fountain. ????. See {Well}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. [1913 Webster] Begin, then,… …

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  • 23Spring Branch, Houston, Texas — Spring Branch is a community in west northwest Houston, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Clay Road and U.S. Highway 290 to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east. The community has been …

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  • 24spring — [n1] jump, skip bounce, bounciness, bound, buck, buoyancy, elasticity, flexibility, give, hop, leap, recoil, resilience, saltation, springiness, vault; concepts 194,731 spring [n2] season following winter blackberry winter*, budding, budtime,… …

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  • 25well — well1 [wel] n. [ME welle < OE wella, akin to weallan, to boil up, akin to Ger welle, wave, wallen, to boil < IE base * wel , to turn, roll > WALK, L volvere, to roll] 1. a flow of water from the earth; natural spring and pool 2. a hole… …

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  • 26Spring Thing — is an annual competition to highlight works of Interactive Fiction (text adventure games and other literary works).Adam Cadre, author of several works of Interactive Fiction, including the well known Photopia, , and Varicella, announced the… …

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  • 27Spring roll — Chinese 春卷 …

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  • 28Spring green (color) — Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring… …

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  • 29spring´less — spring «sprihng», verb, sprang or sprung, sprung, spring|ing, noun, adjective. –v.i. 1. to rise or move suddenly and lightly; leap or jump: »to spring to attention. I sprang to my feet. The dog sprang at the thief. He sprang to his sleigh, to his …

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  • 30spring´a|ble — spring «sprihng», verb, sprang or sprung, sprung, spring|ing, noun, adjective. –v.i. 1. to rise or move suddenly and lightly; leap or jump: »to spring to attention. I sprang to my feet. The dog sprang at the thief. He sprang to his sleigh, to his …

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