Word Meanings - SKILLIGALEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.

• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERTIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBED
  A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
• WATERPORE
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally. 2. (Bot.)
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERWILLOW
  An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCAN
  Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock. Dr. Prior.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERCOURSE
  A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERELDER
  The guelder-rose.
• Porridge
  A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
• Water gage
  See Water gauge.
• Water spider
  An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries d
• WATERGERMANDER
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.

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