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irrigation 音标拼音: [ ,ɪrəg'eʃən] n. 灌溉,冲洗 灌溉,冲洗 irrigation n 1: supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc 2: ( medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solutionIrrigation \ Ir` ri* ga" tion\, n. [ L. irrigatio: cf. F. irrigation.] The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants. [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " irrigation": ablution, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, cleaning out, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, douche, douching, drowning, elution, elutriation, enema, flooding, flush, flushing, flushing out, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, moistening, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponging, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swabbing, swashing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, watering, wetting, wiping upIrrigation As streams were few in Palestine, water was generally stored up in winter in reservoirs, and distributed through gardens in numerous rills, which could easily be turned or diverted by the foot ( Deut. 11: 10). For purposes of irrigation, water was raised from streams or pools by water- wheels, or by a shaduf, commonly used on the banks of the Nile to the present day. IRRIGATION. The act of wetting or moistening the ground by artificial means. 2. The owner of land over which there is a current stream, is, as such, the proprietor of the current. 4 Mason' s R. 400. It seems the riparian proprietor may avail himself of the river for irrigation, provided the river be not thereby materially lessened, and the water absorbed be imperceptible or trifling. Ang. W. C. 34; and vide 1 Root' s R. 535; 8 Greenl. R. 266; 2 Conn. R. 584; 2 Swift' s Syst. 87; 7 Mass. R. 136; 13 Mass. R. 420; 1 Swift' s Dig. 111; 5 Pick. R. 175; 9 Pick. 59; 6 Bing. R. 379; 5 Esp. R. 56; 2 Conn. R. 584; Ham. N. P. 199; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 403, n. 7; 22 Vin. Ab. 525; 1 Vin. Ab. 657; Bac. Ab. Action on the case, F. The French law coincides with our own. 1 Lois des Batimens, sect. 1, art. 3, page 21.
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