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ks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.

A water course; a rivulet.

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

A water course. [Prov. Eng.]

s in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.

am that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.

See Race, a water course.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

A water course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term. E. Arnold.

The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.

A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.

A small water course or gutter. Ash.

l.), a small Australian singing bird (Origma rubricata) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also cataract bird. -- Rock wren (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico.