Word Meanings - WATERMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.

• Water canker
  See Canker, n., 1.
• Water pheasant
  The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.
• Water privilege
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Water-soak
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• WATERGILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• WATERWING
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Water god
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Watertath
  A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

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