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.
- 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. - WATERRATTLEWATERRATTLER
The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water. - 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. - WATERSPEEDWELL
A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America. - 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. - WATERTORCH
The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior. - Water lime
Hydraulic lime. - Waterwork
Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry. - WATERMILFOIL
Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions. - Water beetle
Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like o - 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.
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