Word Meanings - BESPATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.
• WATERCOCK
  A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• WATERSTARGRASS
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• 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
• WATERDROPWORT
  A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
• WATERTUBE
  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.
• 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.
• WATERGATE
  A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
• 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.
• WATERJACKET
  A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed
• Spattered
  of Spatter
• Water junket
  The common sandpiper.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• 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 antelope
  See Water buck.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

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