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a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

The shrew mole. See under Shrew.

A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.

A water engine.

Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia.

A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.

Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

Indian rice. See under Rice.

See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.

Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.

Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.

A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.

The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]

Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.

Waterwort.

The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.

The water ousel.