Word Meanings - WATERBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• WATERBLACKBIRD
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• WATERCELL
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• WATERCURE
  Hydropathy. 2. A hydropathic institution.
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.
• Water-rot
  To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
• WATERFLANNEL
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• WATERVIPER
  See Water moccasin.
• Water furrow
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water sparrow
  The reed warbler.
• WATERGRUEL
  A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.

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