1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.
2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.
ESTUARY
Es"tu*a*ry, a.
Defn: Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.
Lyell.
ESTUATE
Es"tu*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Estuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Estuating.]
Etym: [L. aestuare to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn, fr.
aestus boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat; akin to
Gr.Ether.]
Defn: To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.
ESTUATION
Es`tu*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. aestuatio.]
Defn: The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.
ESTUFA
Es*tu"fa, n.; pl. Estufas. Etym: [Sp., a stove, a warm room. Cf.
Stove.]
Defn: An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. L. H.
Morgan.