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and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid…

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

ificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Aquatic. [R.]

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Embodied in, or changed into, water. [Obs.] Cranmer.

The state of being inaquate. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.

A lackey. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

A quaking of the sea.