Word Meanings - WATERSOAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
- Water plantain
A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain. - WATERCHICKWEED
A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions. - WATERSPEEDWELL
A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America. - Water cure
Hydropathy. - Water ram
An hydraulic ram. - WATERTORCH
The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior. - Water scorpion
See Nepa. - WATERFURROW
A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry. - 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 gang
A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. - Waterspout
A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. - WATERHOREHOUND
Bugleweed. - Water horehound
Bugleweed. - Water torch
The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. - WATERLIZARD
Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3. - Water leg
See Leg, 7. - Waterweed
See Anacharis. - WATERNEWT
Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
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