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artesian(dictionary)
artesian well(dictionary)
ARTESIAN CITY(finance)
GREAT ARTESIAN Oil and Gas Limited(finance)

artesian (iou)



artesian adjective. M19.
[French artesien lit. 'of Artois' (Old French Arteis), a region of NE France where wells of this type were first made: see -IAN.]
Of a well: made by a perpendicular boring into a confined aquifer, the water rising spontaneously above the water-table (strictly, to the surface). Also, of, pertaining to, or obtainable by such a well.