Word Meanings - DRAINPIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.
• WATERCROWFOOT
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
• WATERTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freez
• Water dressing
  The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
• Water-rotted
  of Water-rot
• WATERFLAG
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• WATERVIOLET
  See under Violet.
• Water fox
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
• Water souchy
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.
• WATERGRASS
  The water cress. (3)
• Water hammer
  A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
• Water thief
  A pirate.
• WATERLEG
  See Leg, 7.
• Water junket
  The common sandpiper.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• WATERMITE
  Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-
• Water antelope
  See Water buck.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
• WATERAGRIMONY
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.

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