Word Finder - pond

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An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

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An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

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The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

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I haven't been back home across the pond in twenty years.

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To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

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To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

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To form a pond; to pool.

The pond was my well ready dug.

From the lip of the pond, the panoramic scene was breathtaking.

They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and improved their time.

Walking a path that led to the pond, he found the distinct smell of human.

Josh squatted beside her, eyeing the pond with a sour expression.

She baited the hook and threw it in the pond, watching as tiny waves rippled out from the bobber and gently lapped at the grassy shore.

Large windows framed a picturesque pond, boarded by tall pines.

Can't you just picture them swimming around on that pond, ducking their heads gracefully to feed.

Remember the picnic beside the pond?

The surface of the pond was as smooth as glass, reflecting a small fluffy cloud as it floated across the inky sky.

They raced the horses past the pond and up the hill, slowing when they came to the rocky area.

When a Bob-White quail continued calling from the vicinity of the pond, she headed that way.

They crossed the field, stopping at the pond when Jonathan insisted on watching the wild ducks.

On the west side of the city is Edgewood Park (120 acres); on the north is Beaver Pond Park (loo acres); and East and West Rocks, mentioned above, have been made into suburban parks.

Desirous of proving to himself and others that man could be as independent of this kind as the nest-building bird, Thoreau retired to a hut of his own construction on the pine-slope over against the shores of Walden Pond - a but which he built, furnished and kept in order entirely by the labour of his own hands.

Through the centre of the township winds the Aberjona river, which empties into Mystic Pond, in Winchester township, both favourite resorts for canoeing, &c. Wedge Pond and Winter Pond, in the centre of the township, are clear and beautiful sheets of water.

This same summer the pond has begun to fall again.

Do n't swim naked in the Palm House Pond - it 's freezing cold.

Thrives in open water in deep pond mud, even when exposed in large lakes.

Martha made the call, saying she thought she saw a girl taking a short cut across the pond.

Katie was busy sewing something for her hope chest, so Carmen grabbed her cane pole and some liver from the refrigerator, and strolled down to the pond.

He stooped to rinse his hands in the pond and smiled up at her.

Below, the pond glistened in the evening heat, as if winking up at her.

In June 1835 Airy was appointed Astronomer Royal in succession to John Pond, and thus commenced that long career of wisely directed and vigorously sustained industry at the national observatory which, even more perhaps than his investigations in abstract science or theoretical astronomy, constitutes his chief title to fame.

In the malarious islet of Asinara a pond of stagnant water was treated with petroleum and all windows were protected with gauze.

To its east is a great pond, the Jakara, 12 m.

It embraces over 10,000 acres, including the Blue Hill reservation (about 5000 acres), the highest land in eastern Massachusetts, a beautiful reservation of forest, crag and pond known as Middlesex Fells, two large beach bath reservations on the harbour at Revere and Hull (Nantasket), and the boating section of the Charles river.

Horn Pond Mountain and Indian Hill are about 320 ft.

Simpson, that is my brother, brought me some beautiful pond lilies yesterday--he is a very brother to me.

What's so great about this pond?

She sat on her hands staring into the pond.

For a few minutes they walked side-by-side, listening to the cicadas sing in the old oak tree by the pond.

The big oak tree leaned over the pond with outstretched arms, as if ready to capture a catfish.

Beyond the pond was a vivid green line of brush and trees, bordering the creek.

A fish flopped in the pond, probably avoiding a snapping turtle, and water raced over rocks in the creek below.

The old Apple tree spread a blanket of shade in the grass beside the pond.

Something buzzed by her head and hit the pond, skipping across the smooth surface.

He skipped a stone across the pond.

So what were you doing down at the pond?

He didn't hunt – that I know of, but we fished sometimes at the pond.

The stock pond stared up at her coldly from the tawny pasture like a huge eye, the ice-covered edges surrounding a deep blue iris.

Once across the creek, she pushed her way up the overgrown trail and across the field, pausing to watch a couple of ducks on the pond.

She locked the bison out of the pasture surrounding the pond and joined the men by the footbridge.

During an administration of nearly twenty-five years Pond effected a reform of practical astronomy in England comparable to that effected by Bessel in Germany.

Other names pointing to the existence of pastimes now extinct are found elsewhere in London, as in Balls Pond Road, Islington, where in the 17th century was a proprietary pond for the sport of duck-hunting.

As they retreated, the ice of the Satschan pond was broken up by the French artillery, and many of the fugitives were drowned.

Of her mother little is known save that she lived for some time with her daughter, and that in 1679 she was drowned, apparently when intoxicated, in a pond at Chelsea.

The fields and places of entertainment in Islington were favourite places of resort for the citizens of London in the 17th century and later; the modern Ball's Pond Road recalls the sport of duck-hunting practised here and on other ponds in the parish, and the popularity of the place was increased by the discovery of chalybeate wells.

The township owns and operates its water works; the water supply is obtained from Weymouth Great Pond in the village of South Weymouth.

Rain-water is the best, next to that river or pond water, and last of all that from springs; but a chemical analysis should be made of the last before introducing it, as some spring waters contain mineral ingredients injurious to vegetation.