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- English Word Water dog Definition A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
- English Word Water dog Definition A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt.
- English Word Water drain Definition A drain or channel for draining off water.
- English Word Water drainage Definition The draining off of water.
- English Word Water dressing Definition The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
- English Word Water dropwort Definition A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
- English Word Water eagle Definition The osprey.
- English Word Water elder Definition The guelder-rose.
- English Word Water elephant Definition The hippopotamus.
- English Word Water engine Definition An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
- English Word Water feather Definition Alt. of Water feather-foil
- English Word Water feather-foil Definition The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
- English Word Water flag Definition A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
- English Word Water flannel Definition A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
- English Word Water flea Definition Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
- English Word Water flounder Definition The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
- English Word Water fox Definition The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
- English Word Water frame Definition A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
- English Word Water furrow Definition A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
- English Word Water gage Definition See Water gauge.
- English Word Water gall Definition A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
- English Word Water gall Definition A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.
- English Word Water gang Definition A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
- English Word Water gas Definition See under Gas.
- English Word Water gate Definition A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
- English Word Water gauge Definition A wall or bank to hold water back.
- English Word Water gauge Definition An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge.
- English Word Water gavel Definition A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
- English Word Water germander Definition A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
- English Word Water gilding Definition The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.