Word Meanings - WATERFLANNEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

• WATERRET
  To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• WATERCART
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Floatingly
  In a floating manner.
• WATERSPINNER
  The water spider.
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Formation
  The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
• WATERTOWER
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Formidability
  Formidableness.
• WATERWITHE
  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 furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• WATERGLASS
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Formulate
  To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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