Word Meanings - WATERGRASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The water cress. (3)

• 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.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERFLEA
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• WATERVOLE
  See under Vole.
• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• WATERHARE
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• WATERMONITOR
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.

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