Word Meanings - FLOWAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• 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.
• WATERTENDER
  In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERFEATHERWATERFEATHERFOIL
  The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
• WATERVINE
  Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.
• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.
• WATERLAVEROCK
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

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