Word Meanings - BREASTWHEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

• Bere
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
• BEDMOLDINGBEDMOULDING
  The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
• Beyond
  On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
• Belomancy
  A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
• Bedazzling
  of Bedazzle
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Benignant
  Kind; gracious; favorable.
• Beetled
  of Beetle
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• Berylloid
  A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
• Behindhand
  In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
• Betid
  of Betide
• Bearishness
  Behavior like that of a bear.
• BEGHARDBEGUARD
  One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
• Breastband
  A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
• Beltane
  The first day of May (Old Style).
• Beden
  The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.
• WATERCRESS
  A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.

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