Irrigation

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irrigation \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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 solution

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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 up
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Irrigation
     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.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.