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 bird
Any aquatic bird; a water fowl. - Water mole
The shrew mole. See under Shrew. - WATERBEECH
The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam. - WATERPOX
A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison. - 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.] - 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 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.
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