Word Meanings - ELECTROPOIONELECTROPOIONFLUID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• WATERVIPER
  See Water moccasin.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERBUCK
  A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. Note: The name is also applied to
• Mixogamous
  Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERCLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Preparing
  of Prepare
• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERDRAINAGE
  The draining off of water.
• Threefold
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  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.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERGANG
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.
• Three-square
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)

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