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Water crane (?). A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
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Water 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.
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Water crow (?). [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.] (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The European coot.
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Water crowfoot (?). (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
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Coloq. Great water crowfoot , an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.
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Water cure (?). 1. (Med.) Hydropathy.
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2. A hydropathic institution.
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Water deck (?). A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
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Water deer (?). (Zoöl.) (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.
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Water deerlet (?). See .
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Water devil (?). (Zoöl.) The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
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Water dock (?). (Bot.) A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is Rumex Hydrolapathum.
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Water doctor (?). (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.
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Water dog (?). 1. (Zoöl.) A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
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2. (Zoöl.) The menobranchus.
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3. A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
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4. A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.]
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Water drain (?). A drain or channel for draining off water.
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Water drainage (?; 48). The draining off of water.
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Water dressing (?). (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.
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Water dropwort (?). (Bot.) A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
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Water eagle (?). (Zoöl.) The osprey.
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Water elder (?). (Bot.) The guelder-rose.
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Water elephant (?). (Zoöl.) The hippopotamus. [R.]
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Water engine (?). An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
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Waterer (?), n. One who, or that which, waters.
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Waterfall (?), n. 1. A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
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2. (Hairdressing) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
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3. A certain kind of neck scarf. T. Hughes.
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{ Water feather (?). Water feather-foil (?). } (Bot.) The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant Hottonia inflata.
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Water flag (?). (Bot.) A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
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Water flannel (?). (Bot.) A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
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Water flea (?). (Zoöl.) 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.
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Waterflood (?), n. [AS. wæterflōd.] A flood of water; an inundation.
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Water flounder (?). (Zoöl.) The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
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Waterfowl (?), 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.
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☞ Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with long legs; others are swimmers, or furnished with webbed feet.
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Water fox (?). (Zoöl.) The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.
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Water frame (?). A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
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Water furrow (?). (Agric.) A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
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Water-furrow, v. t. To make water furrows in.
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Water gage (?). See .
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Water gall (?). 1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
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2. A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.
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These water galls, in her dim element,
Foretell new storms to those already spent.
Shak.
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False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow.
Walpole.
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Water gang (?). (O. E. Law) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.
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Water gas (?). (Chem.) See under .
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Water gate (?). A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
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Water gauge (?). [Written also water gage.]
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1. A wall or bank to hold water back. Craig.
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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 .
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Water gavel (?). (O. Eng. Law) A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
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Water germander (?). (Bot.) A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
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Water gilding (?). 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.
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Water glass (?). 1. (Chem.) See Soluble glass, under .
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2. A clepsydra.
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3. An instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom, used for examining objects in the water, as upon the sea bottom in shallow places.
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4. A water gauge for a steam boiler.
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Water god (?). (Myth.) A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
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Water grass. (a) A tall march perennial grass (Paspalum dilatatum) of the southern United States and the American tropics. (b) Manna grass. (c) The grass Chloris elegans. (d) [Dial. Eng.] (1) Velvet grass. (2) The water cress. (3) One of various horsetails.
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Water gruel (?). A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
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Water hammer (?). (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.
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2. A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.
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3. A metal hammer used when heated, as by dipping in hot water, to blister the skin, as for counterritation.
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Water hare (?). (Zoöl.) 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.
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Water hemlock (?). (Bot) (a) A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus. (b) A poisonous plant (Œnanthe crocata) resembling the above.
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Water hemp (?). (Bot.) See under .
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Water hen (?). 1. (Zoöl.) Any gallinule.
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2. (Zoöl.) The common American coot.
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Water hog (?). (Zoöl.) The capybara.
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Water horehound (?). (Bot.) Bugleweed.
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Waterhorse (?), n. A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
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Water hyacinth (?). (Bot.) Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
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Water ice (?). Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
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Waterie (?), n. (Zoöl.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
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Water inch (?). Same as Inch of water, under .
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Wateriness (?), n. The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
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Watering, a. & n. from , v.
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Coloq. Watering call (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. -- Coloq. Watering cart , a sprinkling cart. See . -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. Watering pot . (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc. (b) (Zoöl.) 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. -- Coloq. Watering trough , a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.
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Waterish, a. [AS. wæterisc.] 1. Resembling water; thin; watery.
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Feed upon such nice and waterish diet.
Shak.
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2. Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.
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Waterishness, n. The quality of being waterish.
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Water 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.
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Water junket (?). (Zoöl.) The common sandpiper.
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Water-laid (?), a. Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
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{ Waterlander (?), Waterlandian (?) } 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.
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Water laverock (?). (Zoöl.) The common sandpiper.
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Waterleaf (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. Gray.
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Water leg (?). (Steam Boilers) See , 7.
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Water lemon (?). (Bot.) The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and Passiflora maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
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Waterless, a. Destitute of water; dry. Chaucer.
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Water lettuce (?). (Bot.) A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
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Water level (?). 1. The level formed by the surface of still water.
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2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under , n.
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Water lily (?). (Bot.) A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See .
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☞ The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. See , , and , 1.
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Water lime (?). Hydraulic lime.
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Water 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.
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☞ 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.
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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.
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Coloq. 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.
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Water lizard (?). (Zoöl.) Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See , n., 3.
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Water locust (?). (Bot.) A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
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Water-logged (?), a. Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
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Waterman, n.; pl. Watermen (�).
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1. A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
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2. An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses. [Eng.] Dickens.
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3. A water demon. Tylor.
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Watermanship, n. 1. The business or skill of a waterman.
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2. Art of, or skill in, rowing; oarsmanship; specif., skill in managing the blade in the water, as distinguished from managing arms, body, etc., in the stroke.
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Watermark (?), n. 1. A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
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2. A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture.
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☞ “The watermark in paper is produced by bending the wires of the mold, or by wires bent into the shape of the required letter or device, and sewed to the surface of the mold; -- it has the effect of making the paper thinner in places. The old makers employed watermarks of an eccentric kind. Those of Caxton and other early printers were an oxhead and star, a collared dog's head, a crown, a shield, a jug, etc. A fool's cap and bells, employed as a watermark, gave the name to foolscap paper; a postman's horn, such as was formerly in use, gave the name to post paper.” Tomlinson.
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3. (Naut.) See , 2. [R.]
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Water meadow (?). (Agric.) A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
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Water measure (?). A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
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Water measurer (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See , n., 2.
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Watermelon (?), n. (Bot.) The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of .
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Water meter (?). A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
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Water milfoil (?). (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
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Water mill (?). A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
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Water mint (?). A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
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Water mite (?). (Zoöl.) Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.
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