underflow

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Yasmini lay back on the cushions, drew something out from under one of them, and laughed softly, as if enjoying a deep underflow of secret information.

From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot

However, here, as in the Chaco, there is an underflow, which the Indians know how to utilize and from which they can always obtain a sufficient supply of potable water.

From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

From the area of water-bearing gravels found, it was proposed to tap the underflow water at the 630-m. level by an infiltration gallery.

From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham

Report of the special agent in charge of the artesian and underflow investigations, and of the irrigation inquiry.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled

A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underflow of an Oriental romance.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin