Word Meanings - WATERMONKEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.

• Water moccasin
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• WATERBAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]
• WATERPITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
• Water can
  Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock.
• Water pepper
  Smartweed.
• WATERBRASH
  See under Brash.
• WATERRATE
  A rate or tax for a supply of water.
• Water color
  A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
• Water pox
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.
• WATERCHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• WATERSPANIEL
  A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.
• Water dog
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• Water-ret
  To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
• WATERDOCK
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• WATERTIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• Waterflood
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• Water snake
  A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
• WATERFRAME
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• Water glass
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water table
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation a

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