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Word Meanings - PIERRE-PERDU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation , a mole, etc.

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  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • HEAPY
    Lying in heaps. Gay.
  • WATERWORT
    Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
  • WATER SHREW
    Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • WATER-TIGHT
    So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
  • WATER RAT
    The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
  • WATER CRAKE
    The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
  • WATER DOG
    A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • WATER SAIL
    A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
  • CONCRETE
    grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
  • WATER CLOCK
    An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
  • WATERIE
    The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
  • WATER BALLAST
    Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
  • WATER RAM
    An hydraulic ram.
  • WATER LINE
    Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several
  • WATER LOCUST
    A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
  • WATER PARSNIP
    Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
  • WATERING
    a. & n. from Water, v. Watering call , a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. -- Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water. -- Watering place. A place where water may be
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • MOORSTONE
    A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
  • RUBSTONE
    A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • EYESTONE
    Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,

 

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