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Geyser

noun

A spring that discharges hot water and steam.

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"Geyser" Quotes from Famous Books

... last time," observed her husband. "Same principle as a geyser, I suppose.... Well, as I was saying, in the third place, what was ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... pamphlets (regorge de brochures);' flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the hour of eruption, going like an Iceland Geyser! Against which what can a judicious friend Morellet do; a Rivarol, an unruly Linguet (well paid for ...

— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... therefore now nearly 12 degrees hotter than the intermittent fountains of the Geyser and the Strokr, whose temperature has recently been most carefully determined by Krug of Nidda. A very striking proof of the origin of hot springs by the sinking of cold meteoric water into the earth, and by its contact with a volcanic focus, is afforded ...

— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... would hurl itself jarring through the air above our heads, and by turning on one elbow we could see a sudden upheaval in the sunny landscape behind us, a spurt of earth and stones like a miniature geyser, which was filled with broken branches and tufts of grass and pieces of rock. As the Turkish aim grew better these volcanoes appeared higher up the hill, creeping nearer and nearer to the rampart of fresh earth on the second ...

— Notes of a War Correspondent • Richard Harding Davis

Words linked to "Geyser" : overrun, fountain, outpouring, spring, well over, outflow, Old Faithful, brim over, natural spring, run over, overflow