- 2. Canal, drain, trench, ditch, channel, fosse, moat, sewer, leat.
Water-crake, n. See Water-ousel.
Water-crow, n. See Water-ousel.
Water-cure, n. Hydropathy.
Water-doctor, n. Hydropathist.
Watered silk. Tabby.
Water-elder, n. (Bot.) Guelder-rose, snowball-tree (Viburnum opulis).
Water-elephant, n. Hippopotamus.
Waterfall, n. Cataract, cascade, fall.
Water-hen, n. Gallinule, spotted crake (Crex porzana or Gallinula chloropus).
Water-hog, n. Capibara, cabiai (Hydrochœrus capybara).
Waterish, a.
- 1. Aqueous, moist, wet, watery.
- 2. Thin, diluted, weak, like water, watery.
Waterman, n. Boatman, ferryman.
Water-mole, n.
- 1. Shrew-mole (Scalops aquaticus).
- 2. Duck-bill, ornithorynchus, platypus, mullangong, tambreet (Ornithorynchus paradoxus).
Water-nymph, n. Naiad.
Water-oats, n. pl. (Bot.) Canada-rice, Indian-rice (Zizania aquatica).
Water-ousel, Water-ouzel, n. Dipper, water-crake, water-crow (Cinclus aquaticus).
Water-pepper, n. Smart-weed (Polyganum hydropiper).
Water-pimpernel, n. Brookweed.
Water-poise, n. Hydrometer, areometer.
Water-pox, n. (Med.) Varicella.
Water-qualm, n. Water-brash, pyrosis.
Water-ram, n. Hydraulic-ram.