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rock water en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) Spring water as issued from beneath rocks, seen as being especially pure, clean or healthy.
   • ‘It is as sparkling and transparent as rockwater,’ said Mr. Redruth. 1860, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Sir Rohan's Ghost:
   • And here, while I am thus worthily waging war with beetles, drones, wasps, and hornets, and am all on fire with the rage of slighted love, thou art regaling thyself with phlegm and rock-water, and art going on with thy reformation scheme, and thy exultations in my misfortunes! 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXCV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:

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