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An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross.

ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

ity of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

The courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.

rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash. -- Water back, a cistern to hold a suppl…

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.

Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow. Harper's Mag.

dge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

ften eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.