Water-colorist
(Wa"ter-col`or*ist), n. One who paints in water colors.
Water course
(Wa"ter course`)
1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4.
2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.
3. (Law) A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing
of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.
Water craft
(Wa"ter craft`) Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
Water crake
(Wa"ter crake`) (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake See Illust. of Crake. (c)
The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
Water crane
(Wa"ter crane`) A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to
the tender of a locomotive.
Water cress
(Wa"ter cress`) (Bot.) A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually
in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
Water crow
(Wa"ter crow`) [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.] (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The
European coot.
Water crowfoot
(Wa"ter crow"foot`) (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup used as food for cattle in parts
of England.
Great water crowfoot, an American water plant having deep yellow flowers.
Water cure
(Wa"ter cure`)
1. (Med.) Hydropathy.
2. A hydropathic institution.
Water deck
(Wa"ter deck`) A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
Water deer
(Wa"ter deer`) (Zoöl.) (a) A small Chinese deer Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the
male has large, descending canine tusks. (b) The water chevrotain.
Water deerlet
(Wa"ter deer"let) See Water chevrotain.
Water devil
(Wa"ter dev"il) (Zoöl.) The rapacious larva of a large water beetle and of other similar species.
See Illust. of Water beetle.
Water dock
(Wa"ter dock`) (Bot.) A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock
is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
Water doctor
(Wa"ter doc"tor) (Med.) (a) One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection
of the urine. (b) A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
Water dog
(Wa"ter dog`)
1. (Zoöl.) A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels,
and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
