Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
water bailiff |
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An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. |
water ballast |
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Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel’s hold, to serve as ballast. |
water battery |
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A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water., A battery nearly on a level with the water. |
water bellows |
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Same as Tromp. |
water boatman |
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A boat bug. |
water buffalo |
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The European buffalo. |
water caltrop |
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The water chestnut. |
water chicken |
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The common American gallinule. |
water deerlet |
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See Water chevrotain. |
water feather |
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Alt. of Water feather-foil |
water flannel |
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A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata). |
water gilding |
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The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; — called also wash gilding. |
water hemlock |
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A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus., A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above. |
water lettuce |
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A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. |
water measure |
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A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. |
water milfoil |
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Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions. |
water monitor |
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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. |
water murrain |
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A kind of murrain affecting cattle. |
water opossum |
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See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum. |
water parsnip |
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Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers. |
water pitcher |
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A pitcher for water., One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type. |
waterproofing |
noun |
The act or process of making waterproof., Same as Waterproof, n., 1. |
water rattler |
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The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); — so called from its preference for damp places near water. |
water-retting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Water-ret |
water-rotting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Water-rot |
water soldier |
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An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves. |
water spaniel |
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A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water. |
water sparrow |
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The reed warbler., The reed bunting. |
water spinner |
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The water spider. |
water trefoil |
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The buck bean. |
water wagtail |
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See under Wagtail. |