water silvering (water silvering)

A proce of silvering analogous to water-gilding. water-sink (water-singk), n. See pot -hole. water-skin (water-skin), n. A ve el or bag of skin used for the storage or transportation of water. We had water, it is true, from the Nile; but we never thought we could have too much, as long as there was room in our water - skins to hold more. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 177. water-skipper (water-skip"ėr), n . One of the slender long-legged water-bugs of the Hygrotrechus; any water-strider. genus