Word Meanings - ARCHIPELAGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands. 2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.
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- MINOR
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode, - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHEET CHAIN
A chain sheet cable. - SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - 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. - WATER CRAKE
The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. - BROADSWORD
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - WATER DOG
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. - BROADBILL
A wild duck , which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck. - 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. - 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. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.