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- English Word Watershoot Definition A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
- English Word Watershoot Definition That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
- English Word Watershoot Definition A trough for discharging water.
- English Word Waterspout Definition A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
- English Word Watertath Definition A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
- English Word Waterway Definition 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.
- English Word Waterweed Definition See Anacharis.
- English Word Waterwork Definition Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
- English Word Waterwork Definition An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Waterworn Definition Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
- English Word Waterwort Definition Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
- English Word Watery Definition Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
- English Word Watery Definition Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
- English Word Watery Definition Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
- English Word Watery Definition Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
- English Word Watt Definition A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
- English Word Wattle Definition A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
- English Word Wattle Definition A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- English Word Wattle Definition A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
- English Word Wattle Definition Barbel of a fish.
- English Word Wattle Definition The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
- English Word Wattle Definition The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
- English Word Wattle Definition To bind with twigs.
- English Word Wattle Definition To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
- English Word Wattle Definition To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
- English Word Wattlebird Definition Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
- English Word Wattlebird Definition The Australian brush turkey.
- English Word Wattled Definition of Wattle
- English Word Wattled Definition Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.
- English Word Wattling Definition of Wattle