Word Meanings - WATERLINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines. 2. (Naut.)
- WATERPOX
A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison. - Water boatman
A boat bug. - Water mouse
Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the - WATERBACK
See under 1st Back. - WATERSCORPION
See Nepa. - Water cavy
The capybara. - Water pillar
A waterspout. - WATERBRAIN
A disease of sheep; gid. - Parallelly
In a parallel manner; with parallelism. - WATERTABBY
A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1. - Water crake
The dipper. - Water purslane
See under Purslane. - WATERCHEVROTAIN
A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet. - Severalities
of Severality - WATERTUTUYERE
A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast. - Water dropwort
A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves. - Water-rotting
of Water-rot - WATERDEVIL
The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle. - Showered
of Shower
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