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A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

A wall or bank to hold water back. Craig.

A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.

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.

See Soluble glass, under Glass.

A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.

The water cress. (3)

A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

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.

epus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.

A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.

See under Hemp.

Any gallinule.

The capybara.

Bugleweed.

Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

Same as Inch of water, under Water.

A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser.