Word Meanings - CATCHMEADOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

• WATERRAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERCOLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• Sprightly
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
• WATERSOUCHY
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.
• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATEREAGLE
  The osprey.
• Springle
  A springe.
• WATERTIGER
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERGAVEL
  A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
• Spriteful
  Alt. of Spritely
• WATERWHITE
  A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERJOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• Sprunt
  To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.

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