Standing water," a lake or pond or a stretch of still water in a river.
Most of the predaceous insects which live in still water feed on young mosquitoes, while the adults often fall prey to their more swiftly flying insect neighbors.
It is well to choose such animals for the aquarium as are adapted to life in still water.
Those who wish other fish for study should be able to get information from the New York State Fish Culturist, concerning the species that are suited to life in still water, and how to get and take care of them.
The direction of a plumb line; a line normal to the surface of still water.
Not Nealman--in still water, most of which isn't over five feet deep.
Highest points of the encircling reef between which and the coast is seen a space occupied by still water.
There is every variety of form in coral reefs, but the most remarkable and numerous in the Pacific consist of circular or oval strips of dry land, enclosing a shallow lake or lagoon of still water, in which zoophytes and mollusca abound.
In log, or still water fishing, make as fine and light casts as you possibly can.
Log, or still water having a gravelly, or sandy bottom, is the place to be selected, and you may use three or four stiff rods, placed at convenient distances from each other.
STILL WATER CREEK 'Way down yon'er on Still Water Creek, I got stalded an' stayed a week.
I got hongry on Still Water Creek, De mud to de hub an' de hoss britchin weak.
Way down yon'er on Still Water Creek, De Niggers grows up some ten or twelve feet.
Many boats are here, owing to there being an excellent place of anchorage in still water, protected by an Island, but there are not many houses in the village.
Gonorrhynchus, a sombre smaller fish, found in still water.
If fired in still water, it will make a straight run in the line of projection, provided that an allowance has been made for the deflection due to transverse currents.
In still water P becomes nothing, and therefore W equal to 2 B, that is, in still water double the buoyancy of a mine is a sufficient weight for its anchor.
From thence there is still water to Portage d'Epinettes, except an adjoining rapid.
In a bay to the East of this, the road leads over the Portage of the Chaudiere des Francois, five hundred and forty-four paces, to still water.
This terrace consists of fine loam, such as is derived from the glacial streams, but which must have been deposited in still water.
The occurrence of still water at that elevation just in front of the continental ice-sheet is best accounted for by the supposed dam at Cincinnati.
The largest of the former, the Ampullaria glauca, is found in still water in all parts of the island, not alone in the tanks, but in rice-fields and the watercourses by which they are irrigated.
Deep and long winding reaches of still water shut me out, either from the high berg or bank at one part, or from the flowing stream at another.
We then came to another woody hollow or channel in which I could at first see only a field of polygonum, although we soon found in it a broad deep reach of still water.
We were then upon a sloping bank or berg,* which was covered backwards with thick scrub; below it lay a broad reach of still water in an old channel of the river and which I, for some time, took to be the river itself.
Suppose a series of observations has been made by towing the meter in still water at different speeds, and that it is required to ascertain from these the constants of the meter.
Part of the water in contact with the board at any point, and receiving energy of motion from it, passes afterwards to distant regions of still water, and portions of still waterare fed in towards the board to take its place.
The method adopted in these experiments was to tow a board in a still water canal, the velocity and the resistance being registered by very ingenious recording arrangements.
Then the current breaks through the thin wall, and a bayou of still water is left behind.
At length the loops bend on each other and come so near together that the current breaks through, leaving a semicircular bayou of still water, and the river's course straightened at that place.
It becomes a bayou or lagoon of still water, while the current flows on in the straightened channel.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "still water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
