Word Meanings - WATERMONKEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• 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
• WATERHOG
  The capybara.
• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERLINE
  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 heig
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• Water line
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
• Waterworn
  Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
• WATERMURRAIN
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.
• Water bellows
  Same as Tromp.
• 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.

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