3. A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.
Water willow
(Wa"ter wil`low) (Bot.) An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike
leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
Water wing
(Wa"ter wing`) (Arch.) One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with
the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
Water witch
(Wa"ter witch`) (Zoöl.) (a) The dabchick. (b) The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Water-withe
(Wa"ter-withe`) n. (Bot.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the
West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
Waterwork
(Wa"ter*work`) n.
1. (Paint.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, — formerly, frequently taking the
place of tapestry. Shak. Fairholt.
2. An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for
useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains,
etc.; — used chiefly in the plural.
Waterworn
(Wa"ter*worn`) a. Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
Waterwort
(Wa"ter*wort`) n. (Bot.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera
mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
Watery
(Wa"ter*y) a. [AS. wæterig.]
1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery
residence." Milton.
2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
Arbuthnot. 4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
Watt
(Watt) n. [From the distinguished mechanician and scientist, James Watt.] (Physics) A unit of
power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second.
An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
Wattle
(Wat"tle) n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. Wallet.]
1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
And there he built with wattles from the marsh
A little lonely church in days of yore.
Tennyson. 2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from
the chin or throat of a bird or reptile. (b) Barbel of a fish.
