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Definition of Floodings
1. flooding [n] - See also: flooding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floodings
Literary usage of Floodings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Uterine Haemorrhage which Precedes the Delivery of the Full by Edward Rigby (1822)
"... It is customary in floodings to find the Placenta sunk down to the mouth of
the womb." Smellie, in his first volume of midwifery, ..."
2. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"J there were owned on the river 12 brigs, schooners, and sloops, equal to about
1100 tons, employed in foreign and coasting voyages. by the floodings of the ..."
3. Six discourses on the functions of the lungs, and causes, prevention and by Samuel Sheldon Fitch (1856)
"floodings FROM FALLING BOWELS AND LOW GENERAL HEALTH. Many single ladies suffer
very much from excessive discharges of blood. Many married ladies suffer the ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"We have now dwelt at length on those floodings and their treatment which are
occurring between the birth of the child and the expulsion of the placenta; ..."
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