Limit Roget’s Thesaurus §233 N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine,
enclave, term, # bourn,
verge,
curbstone, but, pale,
reservation, termination,
terminus,
stint, frontier,
precinct, marches,
backwoods, boundary line,
landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of hercules,
rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra,
sluice,
floodgate Adj. definite, conterminate|,
conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering
Adv. thus far, thus far and no further
Phr. stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, special
N. egress,
exit, issue,
emersion,
emergence, outbreak,
outburst,
eruption,
proruption,
emanation,
egression,
evacuation,
exudation,
transudation,
extravasation,
perspiration,
sweating,
leakage,
percolation, distillation,
oozing,
gush, outpour, outpouring,
effluence,
effusion,
effluxion,
drain,
dribbling,
defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export,
expatriation,
emigration,
remigration,
debouch,
debouche,
emunctory, exodus,
emigrant, outlet,
vent,
spout,
tap,
sluice,
floodgate,
pore,
vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path,
conduit, airpipe
V. emerge,
emanate, issue,
egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of,
evacuate,
exude,
transude,
leak, run through, out through,
percolate, transcolate|, egurgitate, strain, distill,
perspire,
sweat,
drain,
ooze,
filter,
filtrate,
dribble,
gush,
spout, flow out, well, well out, pour,
trickle,
&c. (water in motion) 348,
effuse,
extravasate,
disembogue, discharge itself,
debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape
River Roget’s Thesaurus §348 N. running water,
jet,
spirt,
spurt,
squirt,
spout,
spray,
splash,
rush,
gush,
jet d'eau,
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, falling weather,
northeaster,
hurricane,
typhoon, stream, course,
flux, flow,
profluence,
effluence,
defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race,
coulee, spring, artesian well,
fount, fountain,
rill,
rivulet, gill,
gullet,
rillet,
streamlet,
brooklet, branch,
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, ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα,
beach comber,
riffle, rollers, ground swell,
surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea,
hydrodynamics,
hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, 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, 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, pour, pour out, shower down,
irrigate,
drench,
spill,
splash,
stanch,
dam, up,
obstruct Adj. fluent,
diffluent,
profluent,
affluent, tidal, flowing,
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", "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along"
N. conduit, channel,
duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre,
arroyo,
adit,
aqueduct, canal,
trough,
gutter,
pantile,
flume, ingate,
runner,
lock-weir,
tedge,
vena,
dike, main,
gully,
moat,
ditch,
drain,
sewer,
culvert,
cloaca,
sough,
kennel,
siphon,
piscina, pipe,
funnel,
tunnel,
water pipe, waste pipe,
emunctory, gully hole,
artery,
aorta,
pore,
spout,
scupper,
adjutage,
ajutage,
hose,
gargoyle,
gurgoyle,
penstock,
weir, flood gate,
water gate,
sluice,
lock, valve, rose,
waterworks, pipeline
Adj. vascular