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An hydraulic ram.

The water vole. See under Vole.

A rate or tax for a supply of water.

rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.

Indian rice. See under Rice.

A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

il sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.

See Nepa.

A screw propeller.

An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.

species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.

Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.

A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.

A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.

A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

The reed warbler. [Prov. Eng.]

A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.

European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind…