Word Meanings - WATERTIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

• Waterishness
  The quality of being waterish.
• Water tu twist
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Water agrimony
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• Water lizard
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Waterwort
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water bird
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• Water mole
  The shrew mole. See under Shrew.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water canker
  See Canker, n., 1.
• Water pheasant
  The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.
• Water privilege
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.

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