Word Meanings - WATERDEVIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

• WATERTIGER
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERJOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• Similar
  Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
• WATERWHITE
  A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterway
  Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
• WATERMEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• Water meadow
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• LARGEHANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• WATEROUSELWATEROUZEL
  Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walkin
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• WATERPOISE
  A hydrometer.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCALTROP
  The water chestnut.

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