Water

waw′tėr, n. in a state of purity, at ordinary temperatures, a clear transparent liquid, perfectly neutral in its reaction, and devoid of taste or smell: any collection of such, as the ocean, a lake, river, .: mineral water: tears: saliva: eye-water: urine: transparency, lustre, as of a diamond: ( pl. ) waves.— v.t. to wet, overflow, or supply with water: to wet and pre so as to give a wavy appearance to: to increase the nominal capital of a company by the i ue of new shares without a corresponding increase of actual capital.— v.i. to shed water: to gather saliva, noting strong craving: to take in water.— ns. Wa′terage , money paid for a journey by water; Wa′ter-bag , the bag-like compartment in which the camel stores water; Wa′ter-bail′iff , a custom-house officer who inspects ships on reaching or leaving a port: a person appointed to guard the fish in a protected piece of water; Wa′ter-barom′eter , a barometer in which water is substituted for mercury; Wa′ter-barr′el , -cask , a barrel, cask, for holding water; Wa′ter-bath , a bath composed of water: a ve el containing warm water used for chemical purposes; Wa′ter-batt′ery , a voltaic battery in which the electrolyte is water: ( fort. ) a battery nearly on a level with the water; Wa′ter-bear′er , one who carries water: ( astron. ) a sign of the zodiac; Wa′ter-bed , an india-rubber mattre filled with water, used by invalids to prevent bed-sores; Wa′ter-bell′ows , a form of blower used in gas-machines, and formerly to supply a blast for furnaces; Wa′ter-bird , a bird that frequents the water; Wa′ter-bis′cuit , a biscuit made of flour and water; Wa′ter-blink , a spot of cloud hanging over open water in arctic regions; Wa′ter-boat , a boat carrying water in bulk to supply ships; Wa′ter-boat′man , a kind of aquatic bug.— adj. Wa′ter-borne , conveyed in a boat.— ns. Wa′ter-bott′le , a gla , rubber, . bottle for carrying water; Wa′ter-brash , an affection consisting of a hot sensation in the stomach with eructations of an acrid burning liquid; Wa′ter-break , a ripple; Wa′ter-brose ( Scot. ), brose made of meal and water alone; Wa′ter-buck , an African water-antelope; Wa′ter-bug , a species of hemipterous insects found in ponds and still water; Wa′ter-butt , a large barrel for rain-water, usually kept out of doors; Wa′ter-carr′iage , carriage or conveyance by water; Wa′ter-cart , a cart for conveying water, esp. for the purpose of watering streets or roads; Wa′ter-cell , one of several small paunches in a camel used for storing water: a voltaic cell containing pure water; Wa′ter-cement′ , hydraulic cement; Wa′ter-chest′nut ( Marron d'eau ), the name given in France to the edible seeds of the Trapa natans ; Wa′ter-clock , a clock which is made to go by the fall of water; Wa′ter-clos′et , a closet used as a privy, in which the discharges are carried off by water; Wa′ter-cock , the kora, a large East Indian gallinule; Wa′ter-col′our , a colour or pigment diluted with water and gum, instead of oil: a painting in such a colour or colours; Wa′ter-col′ourist , a painter in water-colours; Wa′ter-cool′er , a machine for cooling water or for keeping water cool; Wa′ter-core , an apple with watery-looking core: in founding, a hollow core through which water may be pa ed; Wa′tercourse , a course or channel for water; Wa′ter-craft , boats plying on the water; Wa′ter-crane , a crane for turning water from a railway-tank into a locomotive tender; Wa′ter-cre , a small plant growing in watery places, much esteemed as a salad, and used as a preventive of scurvy; Wa′ter-cure , medical treatment by means of water; Wa′ter-deck , a decorated canvas cover for a dragoon's saddle; Wa′ter-deer , a small Chinese musk-deer of aquatic habits: in Africa, one of the chevrotains; Wa′ter-doc′tor , a hydropathist: one who divines diseases from the urine; Wa′ter-dog , a dog accustomed to the water: a variety of the common dog valuable to sportsmen in hunting water-fowl on account of its aquatic habits: ( coll. ) an experienced sailor: ( pl. ) small irregular floating clouds supposed to indicate rain; Wa′ter-drain , a channel through which water runs; Wa′ter-drain′age ; Wa′ter-drink′er , a drinker of water: a teetotaler; Wa′ter-drop , a drop of water: a tear; Wa′ter-drop′wort , a genus of umbelliferous plants.— adj. Wa′tered , marked with wavy lines like those made by water—( Watered stocks , a term applied to securities whose nominal amount has been increased without any corresponding payment in cash).— ns. Wa′ter-el′evator , a device for raising water to a level: a lift that works by water; Wa′ter-en′gine , an engine for raising water: an engine for extinguishing fires; Wa′terer , one who waters: a ve el for watering with; Wa′terfall , a fall or perpendicular descent of a body of water: a cataract or cascade: ( coll. ) a neck-tie, a chignon; Wa′ter-flag , the yellow iris; Wa′ter-flea , the common name for minute aquatic crustaceans; Wa′ter-flood , an inundation; Wa′ter-flow , current of water.— adj. Wa′ter-flow′ing , streaming.— ns. Wa′ter-fly , an aquatic insect: ( Shak. ) an insignificant, troublesome person; Wa′ter-fowl , a fowl that frequents water; Wa′ter-frame , Ark wright's spinning-frame, which was driven by water; Wa′ter-gall , a watery appearance in the sky accompanying the rainbow: a pit or cavity made by a torrent of water; Wa′ter-gas , a gas partly derived from the decomposition of steam; Wa′ter-gate , a flood-gate: a gate admitting to a river or other body of water; Wa′ter-gauge , -gage , an instrument for gauging or measuring the quantity or height of water; Wa′ter-gilding = Wash-gilding ; Wa′ter-gla , a water-clock: an instrument for making observations beneath the surface of water: soluble gla ; Wa′ter-god , a deity presiding over some tract of water; Wa′ter-gru′el , gruel made of water and meal, ., eaten without milk; Wa′ter-guard , river, harbour, or coast police; Wa′ter-hamm′er , the noise made by the sudden stoppage of moving water in a pipe: an air vacuum containing some water: ( med. ) a metal hammer heated in water and applied to the skin as a counter-irritant; Wa′ter-hen , the moorhen; Wa′ter-hole , a reservoir for water, a water-pool; Wa′terine ; Wa′tering , act of one who waters: the art or proce of giving a wavy, ornamental appearance; Wa′tering-call , a cavalry trumpet-signal to water horses; Wa′tering-can , -pot , a ve el used for watering plants; Wa′tering-house , a place where cab-horses are watered; Wa′tering-place , a place where water may be obtained: a place to which people resort to drink mineral water, for bathing, .; Wa′tering-trough , a trough in which horses and cattle drink.— adj. Wa′terish , resembling, abounding in, water: somewhat watery: thin.— ns. Wa′terishne ; Wa′ter-jack′et , a casing containing water placed around anything to keep it cool—also Wa′ter-box and Wa′ter-man′tle ; Wa′ter-kel′pie , a malignant water-spirit, generally in the form of a horse, which delights to drown unwary travellers; Wa′ter-lem′on , a species of pa ion-flower; Wa′ter-lens , a simple lens formed by placing a few drops of water in a small bra cell with blackened sides and a gla bottom.— adj. Wa′terle , lacking water.— ns. Wa′ter-lev′el , the level formed by the surface of still water: a levelling instrument in which water is used; Wa′ter-lil′y , a name commonly given to the different species of Nymphæa and Nuphar , and also of Nelumbium , all genera of the natural order Nymphæaceæ , and indeed often extended to all the plants of that order—of the three British species all have heart-shaped leaves, floating on the water; Wa′ter-line , the line on a ship to which the water rises: a water-mark.— adj. Wa′ter-logged , rendered log-like or unmanageable from being filled with water.— ns. Wa′ter-lot , a lot of ground which is under water; Wa′ter-main , a great subterranean pipe supplying water in cities; Wa′term an , a man who plies a boat on water for hire: a boatman: a ferryman: a neat oarsman; Wa′term an ship , oarsmanship; Wa′termark , a mark showing the height to which water has risen: a tide-mark: a mark wrought into paper, denoting its size or its manufacturer.— v.t. to mark with water-marks.— ns. Wa′ter-mead′ow , a meadow periodically overflowed by a stream; Wa′ter-mel′on , a plant having a spherical, pulpy, pleasantly flavoured fruit, the fruit itself; Wa′ter-me′ter , an instrument measuring the quantity of water pa ing through it: an instrument for measuring evaporation; Wa′ter-mill , a mill driven by water; Wa′ter-mole , the desman: a duck-mole or duck-billed platypus; Wa′ter-monk′ey , an earthenware jar for keeping drinking-water in hot climates, round, with narrow neck—also Monkey-jar ; Wa′ter-mō′tor , any water-wheel or turbine, esp. any small motor driven by water under pre ure; Wa′ter-nix′y , a spirit inhabiting water; Wa′ter-nymph , a Naiad; Wa′ter-ou′sel , the dipper; Wa′ter-pars′nip , a plant of the aquatic genus Sium —the skirret; Wa′ter-part′ing (same as Watershed ); Wa′ter-phone , an instrument for detecting leaks in pipes; Wa′ter-pipe , a pipe for conveying water; Wa′ter-plane , a plane pa ing through a ve el when afloat; Wa′ter-plant , a plant which grows in water; Wa′ter-plate , a plate having a double bottom and a space for hot water, used to keep food warm; Wa′ter-pō′lo , an aquatic game played by swimmers in swimming-baths, at piers, ., the sides numbering seven each—a goal-keeper, two backs, one half-back, and three forwards; Wa′ter-pot , a pot or ve el for holding water; Wa′ter-pow′er , the power of water, employed to move machinery, .; Wa′ter-pox , varicella; Wa′ter-priv′ilege , the right to the use of water, esp. for machinery.— adj. Wa′terproof , proof against water: not permitting water to enter.— n. anything with such qualities: a garment of some waterproof substance, like india-rubber.— ns. Wa′terproofing , the act of making any substance impervious to water: the material with which a thing is made waterproof, as caoutchouc; Wa′ter-pump , a pump for water, used humorously of the eyes; Wa′ter-pur′pie ( Scot. ), brook-lime, a species of Veronica ; Wa′ter-rail , the common rail of Europe; Wa′ter-ram , a hydraulic ram; Wa′ter-rat , the popular name of the water-vole: the American musk-rat; Wa′ter-rate , a rate or tax for the supply of water; Wa′ter-route , a stream, lake, . used as a means of travel; Wa′ter-rug ( Shak. ), a kind of dog; Wa′tershed , the line which separates two river-basins: a district from which several rivers rise; Wa′ter-side , the brink of water: the sea-shore; Wa′ter-smoke , water evaporating as visible mist; Wa′ter-snake , a snake frequenting the water; Wa′ter-sol′dier , an aquatic plant ( Stratiotes aloïdes ) common in lakes and ditches in the east of England; Wa′ter-span′iel (see Spaniel ); Wa′ter-spī′der , an aquatic spider; Wa′terspout , a pipe from which water spouts: a moving spout or column of water, often seen at sea, and sometimes on land; Wa′ter-sprin′kle ( Spens. ), a water-pot; Wa′ter-sprite , a spirit inhabiting the water.— adj. Wa′ter-stand′ing ( Shak. ), containing water, tearful.— ns. Wa′ter-strid′er , any aquatic heteropterous insect of the family Hydrobatidæ ; Wa′ter-supply′ , the obtaining and distribution of sufficient water to the inhabitants of a town: the amount of water thus distributed; Wa′ter-tā′ble , a moulding or other projection in the wall of a building to throw off the water; Wa′ter-tank , a tank or cistern for holding water; Wa′ter-tap , a tap or cock used for letting out water; Wa′ter-thermom′eter , a thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, and used for showing the point at which water acquires its greatest density; Wa′ter-thief ( Shak. ), a pirate.— adj. Wa′ter-tight , so tight as not to admit water nor let it escape—( Water-tight compartment , a division of a ship's hull or other sub-aqueous structure so formed that water cannot enter it from any other part; see Bulkhead ).— ns. Wa′ter-tube , a pipe for rain-water; Wa′ter-twist , a kind of cotton-twist, first made by the water-frame; Wa′ter-vī′olet , a plant of the genus Hottonia ; Wa′ter-vole , the common European water-rat; Wa′ter-wag′tail , a wagtail, the pied wagtail; Wa′ter-way ( naut. ) a series of pieces of timber, extending round a ship at the junction of the decks with the sides, pierced by scuppers to carry off the water: a water-route; Wa′terwheel , a wheel moved by water: an engine for raising water; Wa′terwork (mostly in pl. ) any work or engine by which water is furnished, as to a town, .: a textile fabric, used like tapestry: ( slang ) used humorously of shedding tears.— adj. Wa′ter-worn , worn by the action of water.— n. Wa′ter-wraith , a water-spirit supposed to portend death.— adj. Wa′tery , pertaining to or like water: thin or transparent: tastele : weak, vapid: affecting water (of the moon, as governing the tide): ( Shak. ) eager.— ns. High′-wa′ter , High′-wa′ter-mark (see High ); Low′-wa′ter (see Low ); Low′-wa′ter-mark , the limit of water at low tide: the lowest point of anything.— Water of life , spiritual refreshment: ( Scot. ) whisky; Water on the brain , knee, an accumulation of serous fluid in the cranial cavity, knee-joint; Watered silk , silk on which a changeable pattern has been worked by means of pre ing and moistening.— Above water , out of trouble; Aerated water (see Aerate ); A poll in aris water , an agreeable table-water, obtained in Rhenish Pru ia; Bag of waters , the fœtal membranes, filled with liquor amnii , which dilate the mouth of the womb; Cast a person's water , to examine urine to aid in the diagnosis of disease; Deep water , or waters , water too deep for safety, sore trouble, distre ; First water , the highest degree of finene in a diamond, ., hence the highest rank generally; Hold water , to be correct or well-grounded, to stand investigation; Holy water , water used symbolically as a means of purification; Like water , with the quick, full flow of water: extravagantly, reckle ly; Make the mouth water , to arouse in any one a strong desire for a thing—from the gathering of saliva in the mouth at the prospect of a savoury morsel; Make water , to micturate; Mineral water (see Mineral ); Oil on troubled waters , anything that allays or a uages, from the effect of pouring oil on rough water; Tread water , to keep the head above water by an up-and-down movement of the feet; Under water , below the surface; White water , breakers, foaming water. [A.S. wæter ; Dut. water , Ger. wa er ; Gr. hydōr , L. udus , wet, und a , a wave, Sans. udan , water.]