Word Meanings - VACUUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water barometer
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• Water measure
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel.
• CLOSEBANDED
  Closely united.
• Close-banded
  Closely united.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• Close-tongued
  Closemouthed; silent.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERGILDING
  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.
• Exhaustment
  Exhaustion; drain.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

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