waterburn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Irritation of the skin caused by exposure to the sun's rays reflecting off of water (as well as reaching the skin directly from the sun).
Dated
Example Sentences
- "Snowburn, especially in the mountains and on glaciers, is much more severe than waterburn as from lakes, and waterburn, again, is severer than ordinary sunburn. […]"
- "It is interesting to note that the affected areas in face and ears were the same regions well known to suffer from the reflected light in snowburn and waterburn. He had suffered previously from rosacea and the front of his face was still seborrheic, but with no keratosis, only freckling from light, which would seem to show that his skin was not predisposed to keratosis and that the long-continued exposure is its cause. […]"
- "7 wild-life preserves, 33 national forests, 9 Indian reservations, 10 reclamation, power, and flood-control projects, 8 state parks, and several mines, museums, biological stations, memorials, bridges and dams. Other experiences included desert heat, mountain snow-storms, rain and hail, mosquito bites, sunburn, snowbum, waterbum, sea-sickness, and bus and boat breakdowns. All in all, it was an extremely interesting, but busy (too busy!) trip, overwhelmingly full of magnificent sights and rich experiences with many aspects of nature […]"
- ""Keep her away another point or sae," said Jamie, "for the glare o' the kelpfires and the saut pans have scared the droves frae this part o' the shore.—and mairower, the waterburn has been here for a week and mair." This is a luminous appearance of the sea, which, like lightning, has the effect of scaring the herrings from the coast. […]"
- "Besides this "composant," the "water-burn" is very frequently met with; and by this is meant the peculiar luminous appearance of the sea, when the waves seem to be formed of liquid phosphorous, and to leave a coating of phosphorous upon all they touch. "Water-burn" is much disliked by the herring yawlers, as the cunning fish can then see the net, and will not go into it."
- "trawl vessels […] plough the ground up, and do not leave anything living […] and the waterburn (phosphorescent life) lighted up by the trawler scares the fish."