Word Meanings - WATERQUALM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See Water brash, under Brash.

• Underfurnish
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
• WATERBALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• Undersong
  The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
• WATERPLANT
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• Water deck
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
• Water rat
  The water vole. See under Vole.
• Underground
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
• WATERBREATHER
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Understock
  To supply insufficiently with stock.
• WATERRATTLEWATERRATTLER
  The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
• Waterfall
  A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
• Water screw
  A screw propeller.
• Underjaw
  The lower jaw.
• WATERCHICKWEED
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• Undertaxed
  Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.
• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water gas
  See under Gas.
• Water sprite
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
• Underling
  An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.
• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)

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