Word Meanings - AMMONIACGUMAMMONIAC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water barometer
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• Water measure
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel.
• FOLLOWINGEDGE
  See Advancing-edge, above.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Resolvent
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.

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