Word Meanings - ORANGEADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
- Water mite
Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of - WATERBEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - WATERPOISE
A hydrometer. - Water caltrop
The water chestnut. - Water pennywort
Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh. - 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 cock
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 power
The power of water employed to move machinery, etc. - WATERCOLORIST
One who paints in water colors. - WATERSTARWORT
See under Starwort. - Water doctor
One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. - Water-retting
of Water-ret - WATEREAGLE
The osprey. - WATERTUPELO
A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime. - Water flea
Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts. - Water snail
Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail. - WATERGAVEL
A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water. - Water gilding
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding. - Water tabby
A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
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