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Word Meanings - AMPHIBIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants. 2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they

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1. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants. 2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare. 3. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

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  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • WATER CRAKE
    The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • WATER DOG
    A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
  • WATER CLOCK
    An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
  • WATER SAIL
    A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • WATERIE
    The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
  • ABILITY
    The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
  • 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
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • EQUABILITY
    The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
  • COMMENSURABILITY
    The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DEFLAGRABILITY
    The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
  • IMMEABILITY
    Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
  • INEVITABILITY
    Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
  • EFFUMABILITY
    The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.

 

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