Word Meanings - WATERMONITOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

• Bandolier
  A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
• Callet
  A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Indian
  Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
• Monitorially
  In a monitorial manner.
• Salvatory
  A place where things are preserved; a repository.
• Appliment
  Application.
• MONITORNOZZLE
  A nozzle capable of turning completely round in a horizontal plane and having a limited play in a vertical plane, used in hydraulic mining, fire-extinguishing apparatus, etc.
• Bandeau
  A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
• Bandelet
  Alt. of Bandlet
• Bandoline
  A glutinous pomatum for the fair.
• Callid
  Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Indianeer
  An Indiaman.
• Monitorship
  The post or office of a monitor.
• BANDELETBANDLET
  A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• NATIVESTEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• Bandlet
  A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

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