(geology) A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.
verb
(archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.
(geology, intransitive, of a mass of material) To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.
(geology, transitive) To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.
warehou
warehou
noun
(New Zealand) Any of the three medusafishes Seriolella brama (the common warehou), Seriolella caerulea (the white warehou), and Seriolella punctata (the silver warehou).
washout
washout
noun
(biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
(informal) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
(medicine) A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
(meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
An appliance designed to wash something out.
An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
without
without
adv
(archaic or literary) Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.
(euphemistic) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.
Lacking something.
conj
(archaic or dialectal) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
prep
(archaic or literary) Outside of, beyond.
Not doing or not having done something.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
wrought
wrought
adj
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
verb
(see usage notes) simple past tense and past participle of wreak