Word Meanings - WATERLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of water; dry.

• Water gage
  See Water gauge.
• Water spider
  An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries d
• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERLIME
  Hydraulic lime.
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterway
  Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
• WATERMOUSE
  Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only r
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• Water meadow
  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.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• WATERPIPE
  A pipe for conveying water.
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERRAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.

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