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.)

• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• 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.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water cavy
  The capybara.
• Water pillar
  A waterspout.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Parallelly
  In a parallel manner; with parallelism.
• 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
• 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
• Water frame
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• Water spaniel
  A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

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