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- English Word Water chickweed Definition A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
- English Word Water chinquapin Definition The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
- English Word Water clock Definition An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
- English Word Water cock Definition A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
- English Word Water color Definition A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
- English Word Water color Definition A picture painted with such colors.
- English Word Water course Definition A stream of water; a river or brook.
- English Word Water course Definition A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.
- English Word Water course Definition A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.
- English Word Water craft Definition Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
- English Word Water crake Definition The dipper.
- English Word Water crake Definition The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
- English Word Water crake Definition The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
- English Word Water crane Definition A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
- English Word Water cress Definition A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
- English Word Water crow Definition The dipper.
- English Word Water crow Definition The European coot.
- English Word Water crowfoot Definition An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
- English Word Water cure Definition Hydropathy.
- English Word Water cure Definition A hydropathic institution.
- English Word Water deck Definition A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
- English Word Water deer Definition A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
- English Word Water deer Definition The water chevrotain.
- English Word Water deerlet Definition See Water chevrotain.
- English Word Water devil Definition The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
- English Word Water dock Definition A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
- English Word Water doctor Definition One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
- English Word Water doctor Definition A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
- English Word Water dog Definition A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
- English Word Water dog Definition The menobranchus.