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.

• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• WATERPRIVILEGE
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• Water battery
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
• Watermelon
  The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a n
• DENTICULATEDENTICULATED
  Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx. -- Den*tic"u*late*ly, adv.
• WATERCART
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Largeness
  The quality or state of being large.
• WATERSCREW
  A screw propeller.
• Water bridge
  See Water table.
• Water ordeal
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• OPENHANDED
  Generous; liberal; munificent. -- O"pen-hand`ed*ness, n. J. S. Mill.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Liquidly
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• 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 chicken
  The common American gallinule.
• Water plate
  A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
• WATERBAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]
• WATERENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Opened
  of Open
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.

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