Word Meanings - BLACKWATERSTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

• WATERMEASURE
  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. Cowell.
• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.
• WATERBLACKBIRD
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• Black lead
  Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• WATERORDEAL
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• Water dressing
  The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
• Water-rotted
  of Water-rot
• WATERCELL
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• Blackpoll
  A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
• WATERPOCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
• Water fox
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
• Water souchy
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.
• WATERCURE
  Hydropathy. 2. A hydropathic institution.
• Blackwood
  A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
• WATERROT
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• Water hammer
  A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
• Water thief
  A pirate.
• WATERFLANNEL
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

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