Word Meanings - QUILLBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.

• Water bed
  A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
• Water mill
  A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• WATERPIPE
  A pipe for conveying water.
• Water bug
  The Croton bug.
• Water parsnip
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERRAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water clock
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Water pore
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water devil
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Water rattler
  The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
• WATERDEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Water flag
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• Watershoot
  A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• WATERFOX
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.

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