Word Meanings - WATERSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

• 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.
• WATERBIRD
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• Undervalue
  To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
• WATERQUALM
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Underminer
  One who undermines.
• WATERCELERY
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Underwrote
  of Underwrite
• WATERSHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris)
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Underback
  A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
• Underpeopled
  Not fully peopled.
• WATERCROWFOOT
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• WATERTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freez
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• Underchaps
  The lower chaps or jaw.
• Underproper
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• WATERFLAG
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

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