Word Meanings - WATERCOURSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.

• WATERTUPELO
  A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• Flower-gentle
  A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Water-soak
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• WATERFLEA
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Water god
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Watertath
  A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
• WATERHARE
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Runnion
  See Ronion.
• Waterishness
  The quality of being waterish.
• Water tu twist
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Water agrimony
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• Water lizard
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Waterwort
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATERMONITOR
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

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