Word Meanings - WATER-ROTTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- Water plate
A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. - WATERCHINQUAPIN
The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin. - WATERSPINNER
The water spider. - Water deck
A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. - Water rat
The water vole. See under Vole. - WATERDRAIN
A drain or channel for draining off water. - WATERTOWER
A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. - Waterfall
A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. - Water screw
A screw propeller. - WATERGAGE
See Water gauge. - WATERWITHE
A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst. - Water gas
See under Gas. - Water sprite
A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. - WATERHYACINTH
Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed. - Waterhorse
A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain. - Water tower
A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. - WATERLOCUST
A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. - Water lemon
The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies. - Water wheel
Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an i - WATERNYMPH
A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides. 2. (Bot.)
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