Word Meanings - WATEROUSELWATEROUZEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.

• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Habitator
  A dweller; an inhabitant.
• 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 flea
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Water snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Searchableness
  Quality of being searchable.
• Water gilding
  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.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• 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.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Wateriness
  The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
• Water turkey
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Water adder
  The water moccasin.
• Water lime
  Hydraulic lime.
• Waterwork
  Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

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