Word Meanings - HEADLAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• 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.
• Water newt
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• WATERBEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• WATERPOISE
  A hydrometer.
• Water cell
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• Water pipe
  A pipe for conveying water.
• WATERCALTROP
  The water chestnut.
• WATERSAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• Water cress
  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.
• Water rabbit
  See Water hare.
• WATERCOLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• WATERSTARWORT
  See under Starwort.
• 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.
• 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.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.

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