Word Meanings - HEADLAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.

• Water elder
  The guelder-rose.
• Water sail
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATEREAGLE
  The osprey.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.
• Water speedwell
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• WATERGAVEL
  A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• WATERJOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• Projectile
  Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
• Waterlandian
  One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Water wagtail
  See under Wagtail.
• WATERMEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Water bailiff
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
• WATERWHITE
  A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
• Watermark
  A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
• POINTAPPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• WATEROUSELWATEROUZEL
  Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walkin
• Water-bound
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

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