Word Meanings - WATERSOUCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.

WATERSTARWORT
See under Starwort.
Water clock
An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
Water pore
A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
WATERCEMENT
Hydraulic cement.
WATERTUPELO
A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
Water devil
The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
Water rattler
The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
WATERDECK
A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
Servable
Capable of being served.
Water flag
A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
Watershoot
A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
WATERFLEA
Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
Serviette
A table napkin.
Water gavel
A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
Water starwort
See under Starwort.
WATERHARE
A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
Smallpox
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
Waterie
The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
Water tube
One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.
WATERLETTUCE
A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

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