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water-gangt (water-gang), n. A trench or course for conveying a stream of water; a mill Jamie son. [Obsolete or Scotch.] water-gap (water-gap), п. See gap, 2. water-gas (wa'tėr-gas), n. A gas, non-luminous in its pure form, derived in part from the de race. composition of steam. The apparatus for making it consists of a furnace for anthracite coal or other fuel, connected at the top with a tower filled with loose brick and called a regenerator . The products of combustion pa through the regenerator, and raise it to a white heat. Steam is then admitted below the furnace, and, pa ing upward through the fire and through the regenerator, is decomposed. While the steam is pa ing the furnace, either coal reduced to dust or crude naphtha is allowed to fall through the ascending steam over the fire. Complicated chemical reactions take place, the result being the formation of quantities of fixed gas. other methods closely allied to this. By one proce the non-luminous gas is afterward enriched by the addition of a hydrocarbon, as petroleum or naphtha. Water-gas is commonly thus treated, and used as an illuminating gas; but it is also used, in its non-luminous form, as a heating gas for cooking and other purposes. water-gate (water-gat), n. [ME. water gate ; water + gate1 .] 1. A gateway eway through which There are also water pa es, or a gate by which it may be ex Fro heven, oute of the watirgatis , The reyny storme felle doun algatis. water-gavel (water-gav"el), n . In Eng . law , a rent paid for fishing or any other benefit derived from a river. water-germander (water-jer-mander), n. plant, Teucrium Scordium . water-gilder (water-gilder), n. One who practises the art of water-gilding. water-gilding (water-gilding), n. Same as wash - gilding . water-gillyflower (water-jil"i-flou-er), n. The water-violet, Hottonia palustris . water-gladiole (water-glad i-ōl), n. See flow ering rush (under rush1 ). water-gla (water-glas), n. 1. A water-clock or clepsydra. Full time of defence measured by the water - gla . Grote, Hist. Greece, ii. 72. IMG:content-2121.png:[blocks in formation]