Word Meanings - WATER-TIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• 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.
• Waterwort
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water bird
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• Water mole
  The shrew mole. See under Shrew.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water canker
  See Canker, n., 1.
• Water pheasant
  The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.

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