Word Meanings - WATERSOAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
- 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. - Water bath
A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose. - Water measurer
Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2. - WATERBALLAST
Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. - WATERPLANT
A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. - Water breather
Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills. - Water opossum
See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum. - WATERBREATHER
Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills. - WATERRATTLEWATERRATTLER
The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water. - Water chevrotain
A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet. - 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.
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