Word Meanings - FALLFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

• Freshen
  To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
• WATERICE
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Water cock
  A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• Water power
  The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• Otherwhere
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
• WATERLOGGED
  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.
• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERCRESS
  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.
• Silverized
  of Silverize
• WATEROAT
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• Water flea
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Water snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• Statesman
  A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
• WATERPLATE
  A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.
• Water gilding
  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.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation

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