Word Meanings - WATERQUALM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See Water brash, under Brash.

• Underground
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Understock
  To supply insufficiently with stock.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• 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.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Undertaxed
  Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.
• WATERWING
  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.
• 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.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Underwear
  That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
• Waterhorse
  A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• Undermost
  Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Underwriter
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

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