Word Meanings - ALCOHOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.

• Water clock
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Water pore
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
• WATERCEMENT
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERSOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• Water devil
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Water rattler
  The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water flag
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• Watershoot
  A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• WATERFLEA
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Water gavel
  A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
• Water starwort
  See under Starwort.
• WATERHARE
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Alcoholometry
  The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
• Water tube
  One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Water level
  The level formed by the surface of still water.

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