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.

• Underhead
  A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.
• 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
• Undertaken
  of Undertake
• 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.
• Water canker
  See Canker, n., 1.
• Placeful
  In the appointed place.
• Underlease
  A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease.
• Wherefore
  For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
• Undervalue
  To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.
• Placer
  One who places or sets.
• Water ordeal
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• Underminer
  One who undermines.
• Wherewith
  With which; -- used relatively.
• Underwrote
  of Underwrite
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Underback
  A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
• Water plate
  A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.

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