Word Meanings - WATERSPRITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. J. R. Drake.

• WATERTREE
  A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• WATERLAVEROCK
  The common sandpiper.
• Spirituousness
  The quality or state of being spirituous.
• Waterlandian
  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 wagtail
  See under Wagtail.
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• Water bailiff
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
• Watermark
  A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
• SPRITEFULSPRITEFULLYSPRITELINESSSPRITELY
  See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
• WATERPENNYWORT
  Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
• Water-bound
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
• Water newt
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• WATERBELLOWS
  Same as Tromp.
• WATERPURSLANE
  See under Purslane.
• Water cell
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• Water pipe
  A pipe for conveying water.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• Water cress
  A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.

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