water thistle (water this1)

The marsh thistle, Carduus palustris, of the northern Old World. Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] water-thrush (water-thrus n. 1. A bird of the genus Seiurus, as S. nævius or S. mot a cill a, common in the United States, and belonging to the American warblers, or Mniotil tidæ. S. nævius is more fully called New York waterthrush, and S. motacilla the large - billed or Louisiana water-thrush. The name may have originally contrasted with wood- thrush, but this bird belongs to a different family. The nearest relative of these water-thrushes is a woodland species of the same genus, S. auric a pill us, the golden crowned thrush (figured under oven - bird ), from which the two species named above differ markedly in inhabiting watery tangles and brakes. Also called water - wagtail. See cut under Seiurus. 2. Any bird of the family Pittidæ; an Old World ant-thrush. See cut under Pittidæ. 3. The water-ouzel, Cinclus aquatic us. [Local, Eng.]-4. Same as water - wagtail, 1. [Local, Eng.] water-thyme (water-tim), n. See thyme. water-tick (water-tik), n. A water-spider of the genus Hydrometra.