Word Meanings - WATER-TIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• 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.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Water-soak
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• WATERGILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Water god
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Watertath
  A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Retainer
  One who, or that which, retains.
• 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.

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