Word Meanings - WATERCLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• WATERGERMANDER
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.
• WATERJUNKET
  The common sandpiper.
• Servility
  The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• WATERMETER
  A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• SERVICECAPSERVICEHAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color,
• WATERPARSNIP
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• Waterbok
  A water buck.
• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• WATERBED
  A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
• WATERPORE
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally. 2. (Bot.)
• WATERTIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

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