Word Meanings - SPOUTFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

• Water gas
  See under Gas.
• Water sprite
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
• WATERHEMP
  See under Hemp.
• Retirade
  A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
• WATERSUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• Waterhorse
  A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
• Water tower
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• WATERLILY
  A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphæa. Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. S
• Squirter
  One who, or that which, squirts.
• WATERTURKEY
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• Water lemon
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Water wheel
  Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an i
• WATERMONKEY
  A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
• Water battery
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
• Watermelon
  The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a n
• WATERARUM
  An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
• WATERPIMPERNEL
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• Water bridge
  See Water table.
• Water ordeal
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• WATERBOUND
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

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