Word Meanings - WATERINCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Same as Inch of water, under Water.
- Underrun
To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it. - WATERHYACINTH
Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed. - Water buck
A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. - Water ousel
Alt. of Water ouzel - Underdolven
p. p. of Underdelve. - Water viper
See Water moccasin. - Undershoot
To shoot short of (a mark). - WATERLOCUST
A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. - Water chickweed
A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions. - Water poa
Meadow reed grass. See under Reed. - Underfurrow
To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure. - UNDERARM
Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm. - Undersparred
Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. - WATERNYMPH
A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides. 2. (Bot.) - Water deer
A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks. - Water rate
A rate or tax for a supply of water. - Undergrove
A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. - WATERBAROMETER
A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height. - Understrapper
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. - WATERPLANTAIN
A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
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