estuary (estuari)

and a. [Formerly also æstuary; ment of the tides is very prominent. The prin cipal estuaries, as thus restricted, are those of the St. Lawrence in North America, the Plata in South America, the Thames in England, the Elbe in Germany, and the Gironde in France. The other side of the peninsula is washed by the mouth - here we must not say estuary of a stream yellow as Tiber. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 99. 3t. A place where water boils up. Whether it be observed that over the estuary... there arise any visible mineral fumes or smoak,.. and, if such fumes ascend, how plentiful they are, of what colour, and of what smell? Boyle, Works, IV. 799. II. a. Belonging to or formed in an estuary: as, estuary strata. We may conclude that the mud of the Pampas continued to be deposited to within the period of this existing estu ary shell. Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 317. estuatet, estuationt. See æstuate, æstuation. estuft, n. An obsolete form of stuff. estufa (es-tö'fä), n. [Sp.: see store.] A stove; an oven; a close room where heat or a fire is steadily maintained for any purpose. See the extract, and stove (in horticulture). F. Park man. [Used in parts of the United States originally settled by Spaniards.] At different points about the premises were three circular apartments sunk in the ground, the walls being of masonry. These apartments (in which a fire is kept constantly burning] the Pueblo Indians called estufas , or places where the people held their political and religious meetings. L. H. Morgan, Amer. Ethnol., p. 157. esturet, n. See asture. esurient (e-su'ri-ent), a.andn. [ e urire , be hungry, hunger, lit. desire to eat, desiderative of edere , pp. esus , eat, = E. eat : see eat .] I. a. Inclined to eat; hungry. [Rare.] self-denial of poor human nature is to expect a gen The severest exaction surely ever invented upon the tleman to give a treat without partaking of it; to sit esu rient at his own table, and commend the flavour of his venison upon the absurd strength of his never touching it himself. Lamb , Elia, p. 427. II.t n. One who is hungry or greedy. Sure it is that he was a most dangerous and seditions person, a politic pulpit driver of independency, an insatiable esurient after riches and what not, to raise a family, and to heap up wealth. Wood, Athenæ Oxon. esurinet (es'u-rin), a. and n. [Improp. Over-much piercing is the air of Hampstead, in which sort of air there is always something esurine and acid. Wiseman . II. n. In med . , a drug which stimulates the appetite or causes hunger.