Word Meanings - DEVILDIVERDEVILBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small water bird. See Dabchick.

• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• Water line
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
• Waterworn
  Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water bellows
  Same as Tromp.
• Water moccasin
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water can
  Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock.
• Water pepper
  Smartweed.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water color
  A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
• Water pox
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water dog
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.

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