Word Meanings - WATERBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.

• Water gall
  A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
• Water spinner
  The water spider.
• Water hog
  The capybara.
• Water-tight
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATERLINE
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heig
• Waterleaf
  Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.
• Water way
  Same as Water course.
• WATERMURRAIN
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.
• 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.
• WATERBAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]
• WATERPITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBRASH
  See under Brash.
• WATERRATE
  A rate or tax for a supply of water.
• 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.
• WATERCHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.

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