Word Meanings - ANHYDROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

• Water elder
  The guelder-rose.
• Water sail
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATERFLOUNDER
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
• WATERWAGTAIL
  See under Wagtail.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.
• Water speedwell
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• WATERHEMP
  See under Hemp.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• 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
• Waterlandian
  One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Water wagtail
  See under Wagtail.
• WATERMONKEY
  A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
• Water bailiff
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
• Watermark
  A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
• 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-bound
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
• Water newt
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• WATERBOUND
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

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