Word Meanings - TEMPERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.

• WATERTREFOIL
  The buck bean.
• Water dog
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• Water-ret
  To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
• WATERCROWFOOT
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
• Waterflood
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• Water snake
  A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
• WATERFLAG
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• Stonebird
  The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
• Water glass
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water table
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation a
• WATERGRASS
  The water cress. (3)
• Stone-hearted
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERLEG
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• Water line
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
• Waterworn
  Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
• WATERMITE
  Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-

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