Word Meanings - WATERTABBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
- Water measure
A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. - Wavellite
A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black. - WATERMONKEY
A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation. - Water brash
See under Brash. - Water oat
Indian rice. See under Rice. - WATERARUM
An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone. - WATERPIMPERNEL
A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed. - Water chestnut
The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop. - Water plant
A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. - WATERBOUND
Prevented by a flood from proceeding. - WATERRAIL
Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail. - Water crowfoot
An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. - Water rail
Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail. - WATERCHESTNUT
The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop. - WATERSOLDIER
An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves. - Water engine
An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine. - Waterscape
A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape. - WATERDEERLET
See Water chevrotain. - WATERTICK
Same as Water mite. - Water gall
A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
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