Word Meanings - WATERFALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

• Water joint
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• Water vine
  Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.
• WATERMEADOW
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• Water aloe
  See Water soldier.
• Water locust
  A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
• WATEROPOSSUM
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• Water blackbird
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• Water monitor
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)
• WATERPOA
  Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
• Water carriage
  Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
• Water piet
  The water ousel.
• WATERBUFFALO
  The European buffalo.
• WATERROCKET
  A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
• Water course
  A stream of water; a river or brook.
• Waterproof
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• WATERCLOSET
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
• WATERSTANDING
  Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.
• Water drainage
  The draining off of water.

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