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A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected. -- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted b…

On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

ents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

s different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 º Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96º; for ether, 94.8º; for mercury, about 675º. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent ab…

g tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast,…

; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.