Word Meanings - WATERPRIVILEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.

• Water sprite
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
• Underpeopled
  Not fully peopled.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Using
  of Use
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Underchaps
  The lower chaps or jaw.
• Water tower
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• Underproper
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Usquebaugh
  A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water god
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Underdealing
  Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery.
• Water wheel
  Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an i
• Undersetter
  One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.
• 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.
• Usurious
  Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
• Waterishness
  The quality of being waterish.
• Underfilling
  The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building.

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