Word Meanings - WATERGANG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

• Water tube
  One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.
• WATERMEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• Water level
  The level formed by the surface of still water.
• Water witch
  The dabchick.
• WATERORDEAL
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• Water bed
  A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
• Water mill
  A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
• WATERBEAR
  Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.
• WATERPOCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
• Water bug
  The Croton bug.
• Water parsnip
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• WATERBUTT
  A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Dickens.
• WATERROT
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• Water clock
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Water pore
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
• WATERCOCK
  A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• WATERSTARGRASS
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• Water devil
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

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