Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	time_n	wine_n	6,421	5	7.9157	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33546	The uncertainty of the art of physick together with an account of the innumerable abuses practised by the professors of that art, clearly manifested by a particular relation of the original and progress thereof : also divers contests between the Greeks and Arabians concerning its authors / written in Italian by the famous Lionardo di Capoa ; and made English by J.L., Gent.; Ragionamenti intorno alla incertezza de' medicamenti. English	Di Capua, Lionardo, 1617-1695.; J. L. (John Lancaster)	1684 (1684)	Wing C481; ESTC R12934	42,783	114

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