Word Meanings - CATCH-MEADOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Sprunt
  To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
• 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 leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERMEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• SPRINGALSPRINGALDSPRINGALL
  An active, springly young man. [Obs.] "There came two springals of full tender years." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• WATERBEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• Spragging
  of Sprag
• Water chevrotain
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• Water plantain
  A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
• WATERCALTROP
  The water chestnut.
• Spreadingly
  Increasingly.
• WATERPIPE
  A pipe for conveying water.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERCOLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.

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