Word Meanings - AGITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERLILY
  A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphæa. Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. S
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterway
  Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
• WATERMONKEY
  A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• Water meadow
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• WATERARUM
  An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
• WATERPIMPERNEL
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBOUND
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
• WATERRAIL
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCHESTNUT
  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.
• WATERSOLDIER
  An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.
• Water crow
  The dipper.

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