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.

• Watering
  of Water
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water lily
  A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea.
• Water-white
  A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
• Diversifying
  of Diversify
• 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.
• Water beech
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• Water mint
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• Diverticulum
  A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Water butt
  A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
• Water partridge
  The ruddy duck.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Dividant
  Different; distinct.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• 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.

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