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 nymph
A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides. - WATERBOATMAN
A boat bug. - WATERRADISH
A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish. - 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.
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