Word Meanings - WATER-ROT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.

• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBOUND
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
• WATERRAIL
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• WATERCHESTNUT
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• WATERSOLDIER
  An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERDEERLET
  See Water chevrotain.
• WATERTICK
  Same as Water mite.
• Water engine
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Waterscape
  A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.
• WATERFLOUNDER
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
• WATERWAGTAIL
  See under Wagtail.
• Water gall
  A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
• Water spinner
  The water spider.
• WATERHEMP
  See under Hemp.
• Water hog
  The capybara.
• Water-tight
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

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