Chapter 1869

Water cavy <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter ca"vy (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The capybara.

Water celery <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter cel"er*y (?) . (Bot.) A very acrid herb ( Ranunculus sceleratus ) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot .

Water cell <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter cell` (?) . A cell containing water; specifically (Zo\'94l.) , one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

Water cement <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter ce*ment" (?) . Hydraulic cement.

Water chestnut <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter chest"nut (?) . (Bot.) The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis , Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop .

Water chevrotain <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter chev`ro*tain" (?) . (Zo\'94l.) A large West African chevrotain ( Hy\'91moschus aquaticus ). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet .

Water chicken <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter chick"en (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The common American gallinule.

Water chickweed <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter chick"weed` (?) . (Bot.) A small annual plant ( Montia fontana ) growing in wet places in southern regions.

Water chinquapin <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter chin"qua*pin (?) . (Bot.) The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin .

Water clock <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter clock` (?) . An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

Water-closet <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter-clos`et (?) , n. A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

Water cock <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter cock` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) A large gallinule ( Gallicrex cristatus ) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora .

Water color <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter col`or (?) . (Paint.) 1. A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color .

&hand; It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.

2. A picture painted with such colors.

Water-colorist <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter-col`or*ist , n. One who paints in water colors.

Water course <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter course` (?) . 1. A stream of water; a river or brook.

Isa. xliv. 4.

2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.

3. (Law) A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry .

Angell. Burrill.

Water craft <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter craft` (?) . Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

Water crake <Xpage=1631>

Wa"ter crake` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake ( Porzana maruetta ). See Illust . of Crake . (c) The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.

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Water crane <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter crane` (?) . A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

Water cress <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter cress` (?) . (Bot.) A perennial cruciferous herb ( Nasturtium officinale ) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.

Water crow <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter crow` (?) . [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) The dipper. (b) The European coot.

Water crowfoot <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter crow"foot` (?) . (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup ( Ranunculus aquatilis ), used as food for cattle in parts of England.

Great water crowfoot , an American water plant ( Ranunculus multifidus ), having deep yellow flowers.

Water cure <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter cure` (?) . 1. (Med.) Hydropathy.

2. A hydropathic institution.

Water deck <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter deck` (?) . A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.

Wilhelm.

Water deer <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter deer` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) (a) A small Chinese deer ( Hydropotes inermis ). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks. (b) The water chevrotain.

Water deerlet <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter deer"let (?) . See Water chevrotain .

Water devil <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter dev"il (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The rapacious larva of a large water beetle ( Hydrophilus piceus ), and of other similar species. See Illust . of Water beetle.

Water dock <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter dock` (?) . (Bot.) A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus , the European is R. Hydrolapathum .

Water doctor <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter doc"tor (?) . (Med.) (a) One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. (b) A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.

Water dog <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter dog` (?) . 1. (Zo\'94l.) A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.

2. (Zo\'94l.) The menobranchus.

3. A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.

4. A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.]

Water drain <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter drain` (?) . A drain or channel for draining off water.

Water drainage <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter drain"age (?; 48) . The draining off of water.

Water dressing <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter dress"ing (?) . (Med.) The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

Water dropwort <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter drop"wort` (?) . (Bot.) A European poisonous umbelliferous plant ( Enanthe fistulosa ) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.

Water eagle <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter ea"gle (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The osprey.

Water elder <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter el"der (?) . (Bot.) The guelder-rose.

Water elephant <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter el"e*phant (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The hippopotamus. [R.]

Water engine <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter en"gine (?) . An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

Waterer <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*er (?) , n. One who, or that which, waters.

Waterfall <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*fall` (?) , n. 1. A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

2. (Hairdressing) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall. <-- = a fall? -->

3. A certain kind of neck scarf.

T. Hughes.

Water feather. Water feather-foil <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter feath"er (?) . Wa"ter feath"er-foil` (?) . (Bot.) The water violet ( Hottonia palustris ); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata .

Water flag <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter flag` (?) . (Bot.) A European species of Iris ( Iris Pseudacorus ) having bright yellow flowers.

Water flannel <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter flan"nel (?) . (Bot.) A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga ( Cladophora crispata ).

Water flea <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter flea` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops , Daphnia , etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

Waterflood <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*flood` (?) , n. [AS. w\'91terfl&omac;d .] A flood of water; an inundation.

Water flounder <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter floun"der (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The windowpane ( Pleuronectes maculatus ). [Local, U. S.]

Waterfowl <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*fowl` (?) , n. Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

&hand; Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with long legs; others are swimmers, or furnished with webbed feet.

Water fox <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter fox` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.

Walton.

Water frame <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter frame` (?) . A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.

Water furrow <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter fur"row (?) . (Agric.) A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.

Water-furrow <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter-fur"row , v. t. To make water furrows in.

Water gage <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gage` (?) . See Water gauge .

Water gall <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gall` (?) . 1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.

2. A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.

These water galls , in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak.

False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

Water gang <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gang` (?) . (O. E. Law) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.

Burrill.

Water gas <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gas` (?) . (Chem.) See under Gas .

Water gate <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gate` (?) . A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

Water gauge <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gauge` (?) . [Written also water gage .]

1. A wall or bank to hold water back.

Craig.

2. An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge .

Water gavel <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gav"el (?) . (O. Eng. Law) A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

Water germander <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter ger*man"der (?) . (Bot.) A labiate plant ( Teucrium Scordium ) found in marshy places in Europe.

Water gilding <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gild"ing (?) . The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding .

Water glass <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter glass` (?) . (Chem.) See Soluble glass , under Glass .

Water god <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter god` (?) . (Myth.) A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.

Water gruel <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter gru"el (?) . A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

Water hammer <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter ham"mer (?) . (Physics) 1. A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.

2. A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.

Water hare <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hare (?) . (Zo\'94l.) A small American hare or rabbit ( Lepus aquaticus ) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit , and swamp hare .

Water hemlock <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hem"lock (?) . (Bot) (a) A poisonous umbelliferous plant ( Cicuta virosa ) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus. (b) A poisonous plant ( <OE/nanthe crocata ) resembling the above.

Water hemp <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hemp` (?) . (Bot.) See under Hemp .

Water hen <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hen` (?) . 1. (Zo\'94l.) Any gallinule.

2. (Zo\'94l.) The common American coot.

Water hog <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hog` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The capybara.

Water horehound <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hore"hound` (?) . (Bot.) Bugleweed.

Waterhorse <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*horse` (?) , n. A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

Water hyacinth <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter hy"a*cinth (?) . (Bot.) Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia , related to the pickerel weed.

Water ice <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter ice` (?) . Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

Waterie <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*ie (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

Water inch <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter inch` (?) . Same as Inch of water , under Water .

Wateriness <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*i*ness (?) , n. The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

Watering <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*ing , a. & n. from Water , v.

Watering call (Mil.) , a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. -- Watering cart , a sprinkling cart. See Water . -- Watering place . (a) A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc. (b) A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc. -- Watering pot . (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc. (b) (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum , or Brechites . The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot. -- Watering trough , a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.

Waterish <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*ish , a. [AS. w\'91terisc .] 1. Resembling water; thin; watery.

Feed upon such nice and waterish diet. Shak.

2. Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land .

Waterishness <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*ish*ness , n. The quality of being waterish.

<-- water jacket <Xpage=1632>

water jacket . A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment.

water-jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser. -->

Water joint <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter joint` (?) . (Arch.) A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.

Water junket <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter jun"ket (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The common sandpiper.

Water-laid <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter-laid` (?) , a. Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid , or left-hand, rope .

Waterlander, Waterlandian <Xpage=1632>

Wa`ter*land"er (?) , Wa`ter*land"i*an (?) n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland .

Water laverock <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter la"ver*ock (?) . (Zo\'94l.) The common sandpiper.

Waterleaf <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*leaf` (?) , n. (Bot.) Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum , herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.

Gray.

Water leg <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter leg` (?) . (Steam Boilers) See Leg , 7.

Water lemon <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter lem"on (?) . (Bot.) The edible fruit of two species of passion flower ( Passiflora laurifolia , and P. maliformis ); -- so called in the West Indies.

Waterless <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter*less , a. Destitute of water; dry.

Chaucer.

Water lettuce <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter let"tuce (?) . (Bot.) A plant ( Pistia stratiotes ) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.

J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Water level <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter lev"el (?) . 1. The level formed by the surface of still water.

2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level , n.

Water lily <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter lil`y (?) . (Bot.) A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymph\'91a, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymph\'91a .

&hand; The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar , Euryale , Nelumbo , and Victoria . See Euryale , Lotus , and Victoria , 1.

Water lime <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter lime` (?) . Hydraulic lime.

Water line <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter line` (?) . 1. (Shipbuilding) Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.

&hand; In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.

2. (Naut.) Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line ; the highest, called the load water line , indicates her proper submergence when loaded.

Water-line model (Shipbuilding) , a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model.

Water lizard <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter liz"ard (?) . (Zo\'94l.) Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus , as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor , n. , 3.

Water locust <Xpage=1632>

Wa"ter lo"cust (?) . (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree ( Gleditschia monosperma ) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

Water-logged <Xpage=1632>