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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ablution, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, cleaning out, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, douche, douching, drowning, elution, elutriation, enema, flooding, flush, flushing, flushing out, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, moistening, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponging, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swabbing, swashing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, watering, wetting, wiping up
Dictionary Results for irrigation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
irrigation
    n 1: supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
    2: (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or
       washing out with water or a medicated solution

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Irrigation \Ir`ri*ga"tion\, n. [L. irrigatio: cf. F.
   irrigation.]
   The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being
   irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow
   over lands, for nourishing plants.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Irrigation
   As streams were few in Palestine, water was generally stored up
   in winter in reservoirs, and distributed through gardens in
   numerous rills, which could easily be turned or diverted by the
   foot (Deut. 11:10).
   
     For purposes of irrigation, water was raised from streams or
   pools by water-wheels, or by a shaduf, commonly used on the
   banks of the Nile to the present day.
   

4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IRRIGATION. The act of wetting or moistening the ground by artificial means. 
     2. The owner of land over which there is a current stream, is, as such, 
the proprietor of the current. 4 Mason's R. 400. It seems the riparian 
proprietor may avail himself of the river for irrigation, provided the river 
be not thereby materially lessened, and the water absorbed be imperceptible 
or trifling. Ang. W. C. 34; and vide 1 Root's R. 535; 8 Greenl. R. 266; 2 
Conn. R. 584; 2 Swift's Syst. 87; 7 Mass. R. 136; 13 Mass. R. 420; 1 Swift's 
Dig. 111; 5 Pick. R. 175; 9 Pick. 59; 6 Bing. R. 379; 5 Esp. R. 56; 2 Conn. 
R. 584; Ham. N. P. 199; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 403, n. 7; 22 Vin. Ab. 525; 1 Vin. 
Ab. 657; Bac. Ab. Action on the case, F. The French law coincides with our 
own. 1 Lois des Batimens, sect. 1, art. 3, page 21. 



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