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Water chickweed
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A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
Water chinquapin
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The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
Water clock
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An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
Water-closet
n.
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A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
Water cock
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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
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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.
Water color
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A picture painted with such colors.
Water-colorist
n.
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One who paints in water colors.
Water course
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A stream of water; a river or brook.
Water course
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A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.
Water course
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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.
Water craft
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Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
Water crake
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The dipper.
Water crake
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The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
Water crake
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The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
Water crane
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A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
Water cress
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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
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The dipper.
Water crow
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The European coot.
Water crowfoot
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An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Water cure
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Hydropathy.
Water cure
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A hydropathic institution.
Water deck
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A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
Water deer
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A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
Water deer
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The water chevrotain.
Water deerlet
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See Water chevrotain.
Water devil
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The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
Water dock
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A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
Water doctor
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One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Water doctor
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A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.