Word Meanings - WATERDOG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)

• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.
• Water privilege
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• WATERCOURSE
  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.
• WATERSUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERELDER
  The guelder-rose.
• WATERTURKEY
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Water-soak
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• WATERGERMANDER
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• 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.
• WATERJUNKET
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterishness
  The quality of being waterish.
• Water tu twist
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• WATERMETER
  A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
• 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.

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