Word Meanings - FRESH-WATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

• WATERTICK
  Same as Water mite.
• Waterboard
  A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
• Water motor
  A water engine.
• WATERBEAR
  Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.
• WATERPOCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
• WATERWAGTAIL
  See under Wagtail.
• Water cart
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Water pig
  The capybara.
• WATERBUTT
  A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Dickens.
• WATERROT
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.
• WATERCOCK
  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 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
• WATERDROPWORT
  A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
• Geological
  Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.
• 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.
• WATERGATE
  A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

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