Word Meanings - CUTTLECUTTLEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an ink bag, opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation. 2. A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle me." Shak.

• WATERCART
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Opened
  of Open
• WATERSCREW
  A screw propeller.
• Water deck
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
• Water rat
  The water vole. See under Vole.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Pursuant
  Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.
• 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
• Waterfall
  A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
• Water screw
  A screw propeller.
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• WATERENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Shellac
  See the Note under 2d Lac.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Water gas
  See under Gas.
• Water sprite
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
• WATERGLASS
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Siphonia
  A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
• Waterhorse
  A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

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