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- English Word Water carriage Definition Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
- English Word Water carriage Definition A vessel or boat.
- English Word Water cart Definition A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
- English Word Water cavy Definition The capybara.
- English Word Water celery Definition A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
- English Word Water cell Definition A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
- English Word Water cement Definition Hydraulic cement.
- English Word Water chestnut Definition The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
- English Word Water chevrotain Definition A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
- English Word Water chicken Definition The common American gallinule.
- 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.