Word Meanings - ROWPORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

• Waterbok
  A water buck.
• WATERSPRITE
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. J. R. Drake.
• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• Weatherproof
  Proof against rough weather.
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• WATERTREE
  A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• SURFACETENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimete
• WATERPENNYWORT
  Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• WEATHERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• WATERBELLOWS
  Same as Tromp.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• Openness
  The quality or state of being open.
• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.

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