a stinking puddle. N.
·noun Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. II. Pool ·noun Any gambling or commerci...
A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cister...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Is distinguished from a pond, in being filled by springs or running water. Also, a pwll or port. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Pools, like the tanks of India, are in many parts of Palestine and Syria the only resource for water...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·- A pool of salt water. ...
In the reign of Henry VIII. certain goods are described as having been delivered at St. Katherine's ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks. ...
Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9...
Heb. shelah; i.e., "the dart", Neh. 3:15; with the art. shiloah, "sending," Isa. 8:6 (comp. 7:3)=Sil...
properly "the pool of Shelach." (Nehemiah 3:15) [Siloam] ...
Mentioned by Stow, p. 16, as having been in existence in 1244, but in his time stopped up, and the s...