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 lettuce
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
• Water wing
  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.
• WATERMEADOW
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• Water-bearer
  The constellation Aquarius.
• Water milfoil
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• STAGEMANAGER
  One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage direc
• WATEROPOSSUM
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• Water buffalo
  The European buffalo.
• Water ouzel
  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
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)
• WATERPOA
  Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
• 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.
• WATERVOLE
  See under Vole.
• 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.

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