Word Meanings - WATERCRANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

• Waterleaf
  Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.
• Water way
  Same as Water course.
• WATERMITE
  Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, 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 fresh-
• 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.
• WATERAGRIMONY
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• WATERPIET
  The water ousel.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBIRD
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• WATERQUALM
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• 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.
• WATERCELERY
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• WATERSHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris)
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERCROWFOOT
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
• WATERTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freez
• Water engine
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

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