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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