Word Meanings - COMPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water cress
  A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
• Water rabbit
  See Water hare.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Compression
  The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water elder
  The guelder-rose.
• Water sail
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Narrower
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
• WATERWING
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.
• Water speedwell
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• WATERGILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Presspack
  To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Volumenometer
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• Waterlandian
  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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