aquæous

English

Adjective

aquæous (comparative more aquæous, superlative most aquæous)

  1. Obsolete spelling of aqueous
    • 1894, Josiah Edward Spurr, The Iron‐Bearing Rocks of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota, Harrison & Smith; Chapter IV, page 73:
      In a part of the rock more or less removed from this specimen, the iron was taken into solution by slowly filtrating aquæous agencies as a carbonate.
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