Word Meanings - WASTEWEIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCEMENT
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERSOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERFLEA
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• WATERVOLE
  See under Vole.
• Water gage
  See Water gauge.
• Water spider
  An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries d
• WATERHARE
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.

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