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- 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.
- 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.