Word Meanings - KINGSTONVALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

• Water gauge
  A wall or bank to hold water back.
• Water star grass
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• WATERFLOUNDER
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
• Water ice
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Water trefoil
  The buck bean.
• WATERHEMP
  See under Hemp.
• WATERSAPPHIRE
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• Water lettuce
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
• Water wing
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• WATERLILY
  A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphæa. Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. S
• Water-bearer
  The constellation Aquarius.
• WATERSUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• Water milfoil
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• MOUTHFOOTED
  Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
• WATERMONKEY
  A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
• Water buffalo
  The European buffalo.
• WATERTURKEY
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• Water ouzel
  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

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