Water

waw'tgr, n. The fluid which descends r f o m the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.; a Watch-tower. body of water, standing or flowing; one of various liquid secretions, humors, etc., — so named from their resemblance to water; esp., urine; the color or luster of a diamond. — v.t. [watered (-t5rd), -TEKiNG.l To we to rover flow with water, irrigate; to supply with water for drink; to wet and calender (cloth), so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to increase in apparent bulk, without adding to the real value, — as, to water stock, to i ue new stock on pretense that the profits warrant such increase.— v. i. To fill with or shed water or liquid matter; to get or take in water; to grow moist when something excites the appetite — said of the mouth. — To make ivater. To pa urine. (Naut.) To admit water, leak. — To make the month water. A phrase denoting that something produces a longing desire, the sight or odor of food or ink, then, boNbox, chair, get. often causing an increased flow of saliva. — terer, n. One who waters. — Wa'term an, n. -men'. One who manages water-craft; a boatman; ferryman. — Wa'tery, -ter-Y, a. Resembling thin or transparent, as a liquid; abounding in tastele , or insipid fluid; abounding with wet; of, pert, to, or consisting of, water; aqueous; humid; damp. — Wa'terish, a. Resembling thin; watery; somewhat watery; moist. — Wa'terback, n. An iron chamber or a coil of pipes back of a cooking stove or range, through water, when heated, is pa ed into the reservoir. — bail'lif, -ba'lif, n. An officer of the customs, Eng. for searching ships. — bear'er, n. {Astron.) A sign of the zodiac, and the constellation which it is named; Aquarius. brash, n. {Pathol.) A disease characterized by burning pain in the ach, with eructations of an acrid fluid; pyrosis.— -cart, v. A cart bearing water; esp., one by of which water is sprinkled, as in the streets, -cement, -sem'ent or -se - menf, n. Hydraulic ment. — clos'et, n. A privy; esp., a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of to cleanse it. — cor or, n. {Paint.) A color ground with water and gum or size; a color the vehicle which is water. — course, n. A stream of water; river or brook; a channel or canal for the conveyance of water, esp. in draining lands. — cre , n. dy, pungent, aquatic perennial plant of the nasturtium family, of several species, growing in running streams, etc., and used as a salad plant and an tiscorbutic.— cure, n. {Med.) Mode or system of treating diseases with water; hydropathy, — applied also to an establishment where such treatment is employed. — dog, n. A dog accustomed to the water; esp., a variety of the common dog, generally of a black color, with some white, remarkable for its aquatic habits, which render it valuable to sportsmen; a small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain; a sailor. — fall, n. A fall or perpendicular descent of the water of a river or stream; a cascade; cataract; a kind of female head-dre or arrangement of the long hair at the back of the head. — fowl, n. A bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; _an aquatic fowl. — gauge, -gage, -gaj, n. An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, as in the boiler of a steam-engine. — gild'ing, n. The gilding of metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the „. mercury by heat. — gru'el, n. A thin Water-gauge, liquid food, composed of water and meal, or farinaceous substance boiled. — 4iog, n. A large, rodent, fish and vegetable eating, aquatic quadruped of S. Amer., allied to the guinea pig; the cabiai; capybara. — ice, n. A preparation of water and sugar, flavored and froz e n, like ice cream; a sher- H'WlZvVi Water-hog. formed by the surface of still water; a leveling instrument in which water is employed for mining the horizontal line. — lil'y, n. An aquatic giant, of several genera and species, most of which ave beautiful, and usually very fragrant, flowers, and large, floating leaves. — line, n. {Naut.) A izontal line supposed to be drawn about a ship's Wa'- tom at the surface of the water. — logged, -logd, a.; pi. {Naut.) Rendered log-like, heavy, or clumsy in movement, in consequence of being filled with wawater; ter. — mark, n. A mark indicating the height to thin, which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the water, usual limit of high or low water; a letter, device, etc., wrought into paper during the proce of manufacwater; ture. — mel'on, n. A cucurbitaceous plant of many varieties, and its pulpy fruit, which abounds with a at the sweetish watery -juice. — mill, n. A mill whose mawhich chinery is moved by water. — ou sel, -oo/zl, n. {Ornith.) An aquatic bird; the dipper. See Ousel. — in -pot, n. A ve el for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth in bleaching, or on from plants, etc. — pow/er, n. The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.; a fall of water stomwhich may be used to drive machinery; a source of power from water; a place where water may be means readily used to drive machinery. — priv'ilege, n. etc. — The right to use water for mills, or to drive macechinery; a stream of water capable of being employed to drive machinery, as for a mill. — proof, a. water Impervious to water; so firm and compact as not to admit water. — proofing, n. A substance or prep a of ration for rendering anything, as cloth, leather, etc., a impervious to water. — proof, n. Cloth rendered water-proof; an outer garment made of rubber or A harwater-proof cloth. — ram, n. A machine by means of which water is raised by the — =momentum of a larger stream than the one which is raised; ana hydraulic ram. See Hydraulic Ram. — rot, v. t. To rot by steeping iu water. — -shed, n. A crest of land between 2 river-basins, etc., marking the limit from which water flows in opposite direc- I tions; the country or basin; drained by any stream of water and its tributaries. — soak, v. t. To soak in water; to fill the interstices of with water. ■ — spout, n. A meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea. — admit water «. So or tight to suffer as not it to to escape; Water-spout, not leaky.— -tight, -wheel, n. Any wheel for propelling machinery or other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; — called an or er shot-wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot-wheel when at the bottom, a breast-wheel when at an intermediate point, and a turbine-wheel, when its axis is ver other tical, and the water acts upon different sides of the wheel at the same time: see -work, n. T U K- BINE. — draulic A hychine; ma- Breast-wheel. or collec- Undersho t-wheel. tion of works, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, — chiefly in pi. — Wa'tering-place, n. A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc.; a place to which people resort for mineral water, or for the use of water in any way, as bathing, drinking, etc. 512