Word Meanings - WHIRLPOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.

• Compossible
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent.
• Commeasure
  To be commensurate with; to equal.
• WATERBAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]
• Havana
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• WATERPITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Compendiate
  To sum or collect together.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• Circularly
  In a circular manner.
• Water tu twist
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Comprehend
  To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
• Commendable
  Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.
• WATERBRASH
  See under Brash.
• Irregular
  Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical;
• Communalism
  A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not
• WATERRATE
  A rate or tax for a supply of water.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Compesce
  To hold in check; to restrain.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

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