Word Meanings - WATERPLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• WATERTABLE
  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 and the
• Water dressing
  The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
• Water-rotted
  of Water-rot
• WATERENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Water fox
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
• Water souchy
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.
• WATERGLASS
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water hammer
  A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
• Water thief
  A pirate.
• WATERLANDERWATERLANDIAN
  One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Water junket
  The common sandpiper.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• WATERMILL
  A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
• Water antelope
  See Water buck.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

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