Word Meanings - WATERDRAINAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The draining off of water.

• Waterflood
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• Water snake
  A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
• WATERGILDING
  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 glass
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water table
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation a
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• Water line
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
• Waterworn
  Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water bellows
  Same as Tromp.
• Water moccasin
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water can
  Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock.
• Water pepper
  Smartweed.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.

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