jet, spirt†, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet
d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.
water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss†; lin†, linn†; ghyll†,
Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe†, cataclysm; debacle,
inundation, deluge; chute, washout.
rain, rainfall; serein†; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain,
drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology†, hyetography†; predominance of
Aquarius†, reign of St.
Swithin; mizzle†, drizzle, stillicidum†, plash; dropping &c v.;
falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.
stream, course, flux, flow, profluence†; effluence &c (egress) 295;
defluxion†; flowing &c v.; current, tide, race, coulee.
spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill,
gullet, rillet†; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike†,
burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.
geyser, spout, waterspout.
body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide,
high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre†, hygre†; fresh, freshet;
indraught†, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge†, whirlpool,
Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation†.
wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma [Gr.];
beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers,
white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea,
long sea, short sea, chopping sea.
[Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics,
hydraulicostatics†; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology†.
irrigation &c (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart;
hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti†, mussuk†.
V. flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop,
drip, dribble, plash, spirtle†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate;
stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle†,
murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray,
regurgitate; ooze, flow out &c (egress) 295.
rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks;
pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle†.
flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself,
disembogue†.
[Cause a flow] pour; pour out &c (discharge) 297; shower down,
irrigate, drench &c (wet) 337; spill, splash.
[Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c (close) 261; obstruct &c 706.
Adj. fluent; diffluent†, profluent†, affluent; tidal; flowing &c v.;
meandering, meandry†, meandrous†; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy†, showery,
rainy, pluvial, stillicidous†; stillatitious†.
Phr. for men may come and men may go but I go on forever [Tennyson];
that old man river, he just keeps rolling along [Showboat].