Word Meanings - BROMINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

• Symbolism
  The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.
• WATERSCREW
  A screw propeller.
• Water gall
  A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
• Water spinner
  The water spider.
• Vaporability
  The quality or state of being vaporable.
• WATERTABLE
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the
• Water hog
  The capybara.
• Water-tight
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• Brownish
  Somewhat brown.
• Vaporose
  Full of vapor; vaporous.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Waterleaf
  Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.
• Water way
  Same as Water course.
• Emittent
  Sending forth; emissive.
• WATERGLASS
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water barometer
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• Water measure
  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.
• Weightless
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.
• Foundries
  of Foundry
• WATERLANDERWATERLANDIAN
  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.

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