Word Meanings - WATERPOCKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]

• Water chinquapin
  The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
• Water poise
  A hydrometer.
• WATERBUFFALO
  The European buffalo.
• WATERROCKET
  A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
• Water deerlet
  See Water chevrotain.
• Water rattle
  Alt. of Water rattler
• WATERCLOSET
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
• WATERSTANDING
  Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.
• Water feather-foil
  The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
• Water shield
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• WATERDRESSING
  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 gauge
  A wall or bank to hold water back.
• Water star grass
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• WATERGAS
  See under Gas.
• Stagehouse
  A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
• WATERVOLE
  See under Vole.
• Water ice
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Water trefoil
  The buck bean.
• WATERINCH
  Same as Inch of water, under Water.

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