Word Meanings - WATERDRESSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• 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.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  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.
• 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.
• WATERALOE
  See Water soldier.
• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)
• 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.
• WATERBLACKBIRD
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• Water color
  A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
• Water pox
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.
• WATERCELL
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water dog
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.

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