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2,452 words match “WATER”

WATER PIG n. 2 definitions
The capybara.
WATER PILLAR n.
A waterspout. [Obs.]
WATER PIMPERNEL n.
A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
WATER PIPE n.
A pipe for conveying water.
WATER PITCHER n. 2 definitions
A pitcher for water.
WATER PLANT n.
A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
WATER PLANTAIN n.
A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
WATER PLATE n.
A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.
WATER POA n.
Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
WATER POCKET n.
A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
WATER POISE n.
A hydrometer.
WATER PORE n. 2 definitions
A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
WATER POWER n. 2 definitions
The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
WATER POX n.
A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
WATER PRIVILEGE n.
The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
WATER PURSLANE n.
See under Purslane.
WATER QUALM n.
See Water brash, under Brash.
WATER RABBIT n.
See Water hare.
WATER RADISH n.
A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
WATER RAIL n.
Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
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