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Water gauge
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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
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A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
Water germander
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A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
Water gilding
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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
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See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Water god
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A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
Water gruel
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A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
Water hammer
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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.
Water hammer
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A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.
Water hare
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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
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A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
Water hemlock
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A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
Water hemp
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See under Hemp.
Water hen
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Any gallinule.
Water hen
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The common American coot.
Water hog
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The capybara.
Water horehound
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Bugleweed.
Waterhorse
n.
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A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
Water hyacinth
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Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
Water ice
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Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
Waterie
n.
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The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
Water inch
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Same as Inch of water, under Water.
Wateriness
n.
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The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
Watering
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a. & n. from Water, v.
Waterish
a.
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Resembling water; thin; watery.
Waterishness
n.
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The quality of being waterish.
Water junket
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The common sandpiper.
Water-laid
a.
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Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
Waterlander
n.
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Alt. of Waterlandian
Waterlandian
n.
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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.