Word Meanings - WATERTIGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

• Dividant
  Different; distinct.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water-closet
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
• Waterpot
  A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water dock
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• Water-retted
  of Water-ret
• WATERDEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Divisible
  Capable of being divided or separated.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water flannel
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• Water shrew
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palu
• Divorcible
  Divorceable.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water germander
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• Water supply
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• Divarication
  A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
• WATERGILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

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