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- English Word Water glass Definition See Soluble glass, under Glass.
- English Word Water god Definition A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
- English Word Water gruel Definition A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
- English Word Water hammer Definition A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
- English Word Water hammer Definition A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.
- English Word Water hare Definition A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
- English Word Water hemlock Definition A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
- English Word Water hemlock Definition A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
- English Word Water hemp Definition See under Hemp.
- English Word Water hen Definition Any gallinule.
- English Word Water hen Definition The common American coot.
- English Word Water hog Definition The capybara.
- English Word Water horehound Definition Bugleweed.
- English Word Water hyacinth Definition Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
- English Word Water ice Definition Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
- English Word Water inch Definition Same as Inch of water, under Water.
- English Word Water joint Definition A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
- English Word Water junket Definition The common sandpiper.
- English Word Water laverock Definition The common sandpiper.
- English Word Water leg Definition See Leg, 7.
- English Word Water lemon Definition The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
- English Word Water lettuce Definition A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
- English Word Water level Definition The level formed by the surface of still water.
- English Word Water level Definition A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
- English Word Water lily Definition A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea.
- English Word Water lime Definition Hydraulic lime.
- English Word Water line Definition Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
- English Word Water line Definition Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
- English Word Water lizard Definition Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
- English Word Water locust Definition A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.