Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	handful_n	ounce_n	syrup_n	4,138	5	11.4099	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42118	A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt contain'd in Epsom and such other waters by Nehemiah Grew.	Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.	1697 (1697)	Wing G1960; ESTC R27397	21,859	66

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