Word Meanings - WATERCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Water cock
A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
Water power
The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
WATERCOCK
A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
WATERSTARGRASS
An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
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.

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