brackish

He turns with disgust from the mouldy corn before him, and the brackish water in his little trough.

Beyond the plain and across a low bluff they came upon water-- brackish, ill-smelling stuff in a shallow water hole, the sides and bottom of which were trampled by the feet of many beasts.

You, Harry, my boy, who have only to turn on a couple of taps to summon "hot" and "cold" from an unseen, vasty cistern, can have little idea of the luxury of that muddy wallow in brackish tepid water.

As they crept on, the wind came to them with a brackish flavour, salt with the sea.

Clear old prime Nantucket water; which, when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from the Peruvian or Indian streams.

The unhealthy nature of the site; the quantity and quality of the children's food; the brackish, fetid water used in its preparation; the pupils' wretched clothing and accommodations--all these things were discovered, and the discovery produced a result mortifying to Mr.

They knew there was a little brackish water in the pit, but they venerated a place made sacred by their ancestor's imprisonment too much to be willing to see Christian dogs drink from it.

Whether its sources were disturbed by the depth of the new cellar, or whatever subtler cause might lurk at the bottom, it is certain that the water of Maule's Well, as it continued to be called, grew hard and brackish. Even such we find it now; and any old woman of the neighborhood will certify that it is productive of intestinal mischief to those who quench their thirst there.

Gay [2] has stated that he found in the neighbourhood of Rio, shells of the marine genera solen and mytilus, and fresh water ampullariae, living together in brackish water.

25.7 (m molc L-1)1/2 where no farm manure was added only brackish water was applied.

Experiments were conducted under axenic and natural conditions to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of Enterobacter aerogenes and Pseudomonas fluorescens for improving maize growth and yield irrigated with synthetic brackish water [EC, 5 dS m-1; SAR, 10 (mmol L-1)1/2].

The reservoir extends over to an area of 32, 500 acres and holds a massive volume of brackish water and is envisaged to be ideal place for the Project to be launched.