Word Meanings - WATERRADISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.

• Horsetail
  A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
• WATERSCREW
  A screw propeller.
• Waterflood
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• Water snake
  A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
• WATERCHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• WATERTABLE
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the
• Water glass
  See Soluble glass, under Glass.
• Water table
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation a
• WATERDOCK
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• Relatedness
  The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Waterish
  Resembling water; thin; watery.
• Water tu tuyere
  A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• WATERFRAME
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• Water line
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
• Waterworn
  Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
• WATERLANDERWATERLANDIAN
  One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Water bellows
  Same as Tromp.

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