Word Meanings - DENUDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water. (more info) 1. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
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- WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - 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. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - 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. - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - LAYLAND
Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - WATER DOG
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. - WATER SAIL
A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water. - WATER CLOCK
An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - 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. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - SWASHY
Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. - PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - AWASH
Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.