Word Meanings - WATERCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERDROPWORT
  A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
• WATERTUBE
  One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.
• Water flea
  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.
• Water snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• WATERGATE
  A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
• Water gilding
  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.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• WATERJACKET
  A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed
• Wateriness
  The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
• Water turkey
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• WATERMEASURE
  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. Cowell.
• Water adder
  The water moccasin.
• Water lime
  Hydraulic lime.
• Waterwork
  Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
• WATERORDEAL
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• Water beetle
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like o
• Water mite
  Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of
• WATERBEAR
  Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.

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