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Water crane
() A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
Water cress
() 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
() The dipper.
Water crow
() The European coot.
Water crowfoot
() An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Water cure
() Hydropathy.
Water cure
() A hydropathic institution.
Water deck
() A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
Water deer
() A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
Water deer
() The water chevrotain.
Water deerlet
() See Water chevrotain.
Water devil
() The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
Water dock
() A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
Water doctor
() One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Water doctor
() A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
Water dog
() A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
Water dog
() The menobranchus.
Water dog
() A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
Water dog
() A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt.
Water drain
() A drain or channel for draining off water.
Water drainage
() The draining off of water.
Water dressing
() 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
() A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
Water eagle
() The osprey.
Water elder
() The guelder-rose.
Water elephant
() The hippopotamus.
Water engine
() An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
Waterer
() One who, or that which, waters.
Waterfall
() A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
Waterfall
() An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
Waterfall
() A certain kind of neck scarf.
Water feather
() Alt. of Water feather-foil
Water feather-foil
() The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
Water flag
() A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
Water flannel
() A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
Water flea
() 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
() A flood of water; an inundation.
Water flounder
() The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
Waterfowl
() Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.
Water fox
() The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
Water frame
() A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
Water furrow
() A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
Water-furrow
() To make water furrows in.
Water gage
() See Water gauge.
Water gall
() A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
Water gall
() A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.
Water gang
() A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
Water gas
() See under Gas.
Water gate
() A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
Water gauge
() A wall or bank to hold water back.