Word Meanings - THERMOTANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Water flea
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Water snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Heathenishly
  In a heathenish manner.
• Water gilding
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Steamed
  of Steam
• Wateriness
  The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
• Water turkey
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Water adder
  The water moccasin.
• Water lime
  Hydraulic lime.
• Waterwork
  Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
• WATERNEWT
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• WATERTENDER
  In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.

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