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18. water-partridge (water-pär trij), n. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida . G. Trumbull , 1888. See cut under Erismatura . [Patuxent river, Maryland.] the urethra. water-motor (water-mōter), n. Any waterwheel or turbine; in a narrower and the more wa water-pa age (water-pasaj), n. A pa age common sense, any form of small motor using for water; water under pre ure, and serving to drive light water-pennywort (water-pen"i-wert), n. Same machinery, such as printing-pre es and sewing machines. Such motors are made in the form of over wees in motor sae made prop i of over water-pepper (water-peper), water-pepper (wa'ter-pep"èr), n. 1. The smart cylinders, and rotary engines. Another form is a small turbine designed to be fitted to a common house supply pipe. Small engines with oscillating cylinders are also as marsh - pennywort . weed, Polygonum Hydro piper . The mild water pepper is P. hydropiperoides .-2. Same as wa terwort , 1. water-pore water-persicaria (water-per-si-kari-ä), n. See persicaria . water-pewit (water-pē"wit), n. See pewit (c) and Sayornis . Sayornis . water-pheasant (water-fez"ant), n. 1. The Chinese jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus . See cut under Hydrophasianus .-2. The pi pintail or a congeneric duck, having a long tail. See pheasant (d) (5), and cut under Dafila .-3. The goosander, Mergus merganser ; also, the hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus . water phone (water-fon), n . [Irreg. water + Gr. φώνη , voice, sound, simulating telephone .] An instrument for observing the flow of water in pipes and the detection of leaks, when the pipes are laid und underground or in other inacce ible places. A common form consists of a metallic diaphragm arranged in an ear-trumpet after a manner analogous to a telephone receiver, and having a slender rod of steel connected with the diaphragm in such a way as not to touch the trumpet. In use the free end of the rod is placed upon the pipe to be examined, and the ear, placed at the trumpet, is thus enabled to hear distinctly sounds that, without this device, would be entirely inaudible. water-piet (water-pī"et), n. The water-ouzel or dipper, Cinclus aquatic us. Also water - pyet . See cut under dipper . Montagu . [Prov. Eng.] water-pig (water-pig), n. 1. A porpoise.-2. The capibara (which see, with cut). - 3. A fish, the gourami. water-pillar (water-pil är), n. 1t. A water- spout.-2. On a railroad, an upright pipe with a swinging hollow arm or gooseneck, placed beside the track for supplying water to loco- motives; a water-crane. water-pimpernel (water-pim" pér-nel), n . See pimpernel . water-pine (water-pin), n . See pine1 . water-pipe (water-pīp), n . [ water - pipe ; water + pipe .] 1. A pipe for conveying wa- ter. Wright , Vocabulary. Single I grew, like some green plant, whose root Creeps to the garden water - pipes beneath, Feeding the flower. Tennyson, Fair Women. 2. A waterspout. [Archaic.]