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Irriguous   Listen
adjective
Irriguous  adj.  
1.
Watered; watery; moist; dewy. (Obs.) "The flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spreads her store."
2.
Gently penetrating or pervading. (Obs.)






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"Irriguous" Quotes from Famous Books



... we stolid beef-eaters, before we had been taught by modern science that we were no better than baboons ourselves, were wont discourteously to liken to that of the livelier tribes of Monkey, did in fact so much impress the Hollanders, when first the irriguous Franks gave motion and current to their marshes, that the earliest heraldry in which we find the Frank power blazoned seems to be founded on a Dutch endeavour to give some distantly satirical presentment of it. "For," says a most ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin



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