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Fountain :: Fountain (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A head or reservoir of water.

Urinarium :: Urinarium (n.) A reservoir for urine, etc., for manure..

Sump :: Sump (n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there..

Stream :: Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano..

Reservoir :: Reservoir (n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like..

Piffara :: Piffara (n.) A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir..

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids..

Trass :: Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water..

Hydrometer :: Hydrometer (n.) An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge..

Water Supply :: Water supply () A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like..

Reservoir :: Reservoir (n.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter..

Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy

Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..

Cistern :: Cistern (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.

Calculus :: Calculus (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc..

Air Gun :: Air gun () A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger..

Capaciousness :: Capaciousness (n.) The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc..

Catchment :: Catchment (n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

Conduit :: Conduit (n.) A structure forming a reservoir for water.

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