Word Meanings - BRICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Driveling
  of Drivel
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Moldboard
  Alt. of Mouldboard
• WATERWING
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• Blockish
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Stack
  A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Temperancy
  Temperance.
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.

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