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Conservancy   Listen
noun
Conservancy  n.  Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. "(An act was) passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis."






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"Conservancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hamburg, Magdeburg, Dresden, Stettin, Frankfurt, Breslan, and Ulm will be subject to a foreign jurisdiction. It is almost as though the Powers of Continental Europe were to be placed in a majority on the Thames Conservancy ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes

... this occasion the snake, which had been several hours in the well, swam with ease, raising its head and hood above water; and instances have repeatedly occurred of the cobra de capello voluntarily taking considerable excursions by sea. When the "Wellington," a government vessel employed in the conservancy of the pearl banks, was anchored about a quarter of a mile from the land, in the bay of Koodremale, a cobra was seen, about an hour before sunset, swimming vigorously towards the ship. It came within twelve yards, when the sailors assailed it with billets of wood and other missiles, ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent



Words linked to "Conservancy" :   committee, United Kingdom, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commission, UK



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