aquose

English

Etymology

From Latin aquosus (“watery”), from aqua. See aqua, aqueous.

Adjective

aquose (comparative more aquose, superlative most aquose)

  1. (obsolete) watery; aqueous
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    • 1661, Robert Lovell, Sive panzoologicomineralogia
      The cachexy, which is a diffusion of the whole body into an aquose and tumid softnesse […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aquose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Adjective

aquōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of aquōsus
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