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Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

ome other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

he radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

art modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

eculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostr…

A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

fted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming hom…

orthern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

ic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.