Word Meanings - WATERBALLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.

• Water buck
  A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.
• Water ousel
  Alt. of Water ouzel
• WATERBUCK
  A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. Note: The name is also applied to
• WATERRICE
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• Water chickweed
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• Water poa
  Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
• WATERCLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• WATERSPRITE
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. J. R. Drake.
• Water deer
  A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
• Water rate
  A rate or tax for a supply of water.
• WATERDRAINAGE
  The draining off of water.
• WATERTREE
  A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.
• Water feather
  Alt. of Water feather-foil
• Watershed
  The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
• WATERGANG
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.
• Water gate
  A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
• Water-standing
  Tear-filled.
• WATERICE
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Construct
  To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
• Water hyacinth
  Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

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