Anti () A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of |
Anti-American (a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. |
Anti-federalist (n.) One of party opposed to a federative government |
Anti-Gallican (a.) Opposed to what is Gallic or French. |
Anti-trade (n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. |
Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Broad seal () The great seal of England |
Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water (a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water (a.) Unskilled |
Lady's seal () The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). |
Lady's seal () The black bryony (Tamus communis). |
Napha water () A perfume distilled from orange flowers. |
Provide (v. t.) To look out for in advance |
Provide (v. t.) To supply |
Provide (v. t.) To furnish |
Provide (v. t.) To establish as a previous condition |
Provide (v. t.) To foresee. |
Provide (v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor. |
Provide (v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance |
Provide (v. i.) To stipulate previously |
Rose water () Water tinctured with roses by distillation. |
Rose-water (a.) Having the odor of rose water |
Seal (n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae. |
Seal (n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security. |
Seal (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal |
Seal (n.) That which seals or fastens |
Seal (n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable |
Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid |
Seal (v. t.) To set or affix a seal to |
Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality |
Seal (v. t.) To fasten with a seal |
Seal (v. t.) Hence, to shut close |
Seal (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like. |
Seal (v. t.) To close by means of a seal |
Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife. |
Seal (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal. |
Seal-brown (a.) Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. |
Selters water () A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid. |
Seltzer water () See Selters water. |
Siphon (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure |
Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata. |
Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon. |
Siphon (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata. |
Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell. |
Siphon (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans. |
Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans. |
Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids. |
Siphon (n.) A siphon bottle. |
Siphon (v. t.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level. |
water travel seafaring | travel by water |
water sport aquatics | sports that involve bodies of water |
water-skiing | skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat |
water polo | a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal |
trap block | (American football) an illegal block |
treading water | a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms |
anti-takeover defense | resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover |
anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
water conservation | the conservation of water resources |
water development water project water program | making an area of water more useful |
mousetrap trap play | (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated |
ambush ambuscade lying in wait trap | the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise |
siphon syphon | a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled |
water thrush | brownish North American warbler found near streams |
water ouzel dipper | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet, frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom |
European water ouzel Cinclus aquaticus | a water ouzel of Europe |
American water ouzel Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
water snake | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
water moccasin | any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters |
water moccasin cottonmouth cottonmouth moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus | venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States |
trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
waterfowl water bird waterbird | freshwater aquatic bird |
water shrew | any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams |
American water shrew Sorex palustris | water shrew of North America |
European water shrew Neomys fodiens | widely distributed Old World water shrew |
Mediterranean water shrew Neomys anomalus | a type of water shrew |
daphnia water flea | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell, moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae |
cyclops water flea | minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming, important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms |
gallinule marsh hen water hen swamphen | any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
American coot marsh hen mud hen water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
water turkey Anhinga anhinga | blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions |
seal | any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed, chiefly of cold regions |
crabeater seal crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
eared seal | pinniped mammal having external ear flaps and hind limbs used for locomotion on land, valued for its soft underfur |
fur seal | eared seal of the southern hemisphere, the thick soft underfur is the source of sealskin, the male fur seal is much larger than the female |
guadalupe fur seal Arctocephalus philippi | a fur seal of the Pacific coast of California and southward |
fur seal | an eared seal of the northern Pacific |
Alaska fur seal Callorhinus ursinus | of Pacific coast from Alaska southward to California |
earless seal true seal hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
harbor seal common seal Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
harp seal Pagophilus groenlandicus | common Arctic seal, the young are all white |
elephant seal sea elephant | either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks |
bearded seal squareflipper square flipper Erignathus barbatus | medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle, of the Arctic Ocean |
hooded seal bladdernose Cystophora cristata | medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head, of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters |
water dog | a dog accustomed to water and usually trained to retrieve waterfowl |
water spaniel | any dog of two large curlyoated breeds used for hunting waterfowl |
American water spaniel | breed of medium-sized spaniels originating in America having chocolate or liverolored curly coat |
Irish water spaniel | breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liverolored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail |
water vascular system | system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration |