Word Meanings - PUBLICSERVICECORPORATIONQUASIPUBLICCORPORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• LIGHTYEAR
  The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
• Essentiality
  The quality of being essential; the essential part.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERVIPER
  See Water moccasin.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERBATH
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• WATERGRUEL
  A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERBUCK
  A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. Note: The name is also applied to
• Lightermen
  of Lighterman
• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERCLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Lightman
  A man who carries or takes care of a light.

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