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Water dog
·- The <<Menobranchus>>.
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Dog
·noun A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
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Dog
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dog
An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another ...
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to dog
To hunt as a dog, insidiously and indefatigably.--Johnson.
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dog
The hammer of a fire-lock or pistol; that which holds the flint, called also dog-head. Also, a sort ...
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Dog
an animal frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was used by the hebrews as a watch for their houses,...
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Water
·vi To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
II. Water ·noun Any liquid secret...
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water
His chops watered at it; he longed earnestly for it. To watch his waters; to keep a strict watch on ...
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Curtail dog
·- A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the fo...
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Dog bee
·- A male or drone bee.
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Dog day
·- ·Alt. of <<Dogday>>.
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Dog days
·- A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the...
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Dog fancier
·- One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
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Dog Star
·- Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in th...
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Dog-brier
·noun The dog-rose.
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Dog-eared
·adj Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage;
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Dog-faced
·adj Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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Dog-fox
·noun A male fox. ·see the Note under Dog, ·noun, 6.
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Dog-headed
·adj Having a head shaped like that of a dog;
— said of certain baboons.
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Dog-hearted
·adj Inhuman; cruel.
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Dog-legged
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Dog-rose
·noun A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
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Dog-weary
·adj Extremely weary.
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Red dog
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Red-dog flour.
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Sea dog
·- The common seal.
II. Sea dog ·- An old sailor; a salt.
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Skittle-dog
·noun The piked dogfish.
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Spitz dog
·- A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white;
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Old Dog
See Queen's Arms.
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dog booby
An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow.
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butcher's dog
To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to m...
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dog buffers
Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs ...
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dog latin
Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings.
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dog vane
A cockade.
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hunt's dog
He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor stay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a sm...
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jolly dog
A merry facetious fellow; a BON VIVANT, who never flinches from his glass, nor cries to go home to b...
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sad dog
A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin...
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salesman's dog
A barker. Vide BARKER.
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dog-fish
n.
The name belongs to variousfishes of distinct families, chiefly sharks. In Australia,it is used ...
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kangaroo-dog
n.
a large dog, lurcher,deerhound, or greyhound, used for hunting the Kangaroo.
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native dog
n.
Another name for the dingo (q.v.).
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pig-dog
n.
a dog used in hunting wild pigs.
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wild dog
n.
i.q. dingo (q.v.).
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dog cheap
Anything exceedingly cheap; or, as Dr. Johnson says, as cheap as dog's meat.
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dog sick
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach.
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prairie-dog
(Aretomys ludovicianus.) Called by the Indians Wistonwish. A variety of the marmot. It has received ...
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dog-whipper
a church beadle. North,
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long dog
a greyhound. Derb.
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angle-dog
, or angle-twitch
A large earth-worm, sought for bait.
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bull-dog
, or muzzled bull-dog
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dog-bolt
A cap square bolt.
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dog-drave
A kind of sea-fish mentioned in early charters.
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dog-fish
A name commonly applied to several small species of the shark family.
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dog-shores
Two long square blocks of timber, resting diagonally with their heads to the cleats. They are placed...
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dog-sleep
The uncomfortable fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.
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dog-stopper
Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger.
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dog-tongue
A name assigned to a kind of sole.
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dog-vane
A small vane made of thread, cork, and feathers, or buntin, fastened on the end of a half-pike, and ...
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dog-watch
The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...
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raft-dog
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sea-dog
A name of the common seal.
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Apollinaris water
·- An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in ...
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Fresh-water
·adj Unskilled; raw.
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Napha water
·- A perfume distilled from orange flowers.
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Rose water
·- Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
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Rose-water
·adj Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.
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Selters water
·- A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic a...
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Seltzer water
·- ·see Selters water.
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Spurn-water
·noun A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
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Strong-water
·noun An <<Acid>>.
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Surfeit-water
·noun Water for the cure of surfeits.
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Tail-water
·noun Water in a tailrace.
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Vichy water
·- A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, cal...
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Water adder
·- The water moccasin.
II. Water adder ·- The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus s...
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Water agrimony
·- A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
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Water aloe
·- ·see Water soldier.
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Water antelope
·- ·see Water buck.
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Water arum
·- An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate...
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Water back
·- ·see under 1st Back.
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Water bailiff
·- An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
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Water ballast
·- Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
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Water barometer
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Water bath
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Water battery
·- A battery nearly on a level with the water.
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Water bear
·- Any species of Tardigrada, 2. ·see ·Illust. of Tardigrada.
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Water bed
·- A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used ...
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Water beech
·- The American hornbeam. ·see <<Hornbeam>>.
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Water beetle
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...
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Water bellows
·- ·same·as <<Tromp>>.
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Water bird
·- Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
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Water blackbird
·- The European water ousel, or dipper.
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Water boatman
·- A boat bug.
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Water brain
·- A disease of sheep; gid.
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Water brash
·- ·see under <<Brash>>.
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Water breather
·- Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
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Water bridge
·- ·see Water table.
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Water buck
·- A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks o...
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Water buffalo
·- The European buffalo.
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Water bug
·- The Croton bug.
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Water butt
·- A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
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Water caltrop
·- The water chestnut.
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Water can
·- Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily;
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Water canker
·- ·see <<Canker>>, ·noun, 1.
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Water carriage
·- A vessel or boat.
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Water cart
·- A cart carrying water; ·esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, ·e...
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Water cavy
·- The <<Capybara>>.
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Water celery
·- A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places;
— called also curse...
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Water cell
·- A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is sto...
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Water cement
·- Hydraulic cement.
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Water chestnut
·- The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruit...
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Water chevrotain
·- A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs th...
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Water chicken
·- The common American gallinule.
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Water chickweed
·- A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
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Water chinquapin
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Water clock
·- An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of w...
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Water cock
·- A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the b...
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Water color
·- A picture painted with such colors.
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Water course
·- A stream of water; a river or brook.
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Water craft
·- Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
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Water crake
·- The <<Dipper>>.
II. Water crake ·- The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
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Water crane
·- A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotiv...
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Water cress
·- A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring w...
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Water crow
·- The European coot.
II. Water crow ·- The <<Dipper>>.
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Water crowfoot
·- An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England....
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Water cure
·- A hydropathic institution.
II. Water cure ·- <<Hydropathy>>.
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Water deck
·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
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Water deer
·- The water chevrotain.
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Water deerlet
·- ·see Water chevrotain.
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Water devil
·- The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. ·...
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Water dock
·- A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the Euro...
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Water doctor
·- One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
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Water drain
·- A drain or channel for draining off water.
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Water drainage
·- The draining off of water.
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Water dressing
·- The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with wa...
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Water dropwort
·- A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely d...
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Water eagle
·- The <<Osprey>>.
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Water elder
·- The guelder-rose.
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Water elephant
·- The <<Hippopotamus>>.
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Water engine
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
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Water feather
·- ·Alt. of Water feather-foil.
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Water flag
·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
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Water flannel
·- A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladop...
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Water flea
·- Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphni...
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Water flounder
·- The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
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Water fox
·- The carp;
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Water frame
·- A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
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Water furrow
·- A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
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Water gage
·- ·see Water gauge.
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Water gall
·- A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
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Water gang
·- A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
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Water gas
·- ·see under <<Gas>>.
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Water gate
·- A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
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Water gauge
·- A wall or bank to hold water back.
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Water gavel
·- A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
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Water germander
·- A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
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Water gilding
·- The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of ama...
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Water glass
·add. ·- A water gauge for a steam boiler.
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Water god
·- A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
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Water grass
·add. ·- Manna grass.
II. Water grass ·add. ·- Velvet grass.
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Water gruel
·- A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boil...
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Water hammer
·- A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel contai...
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Water hare
·- A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the Uni...
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Water hemlock
·- A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
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Water hemp
·- ·see under <<Hemp>>.
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Water hen
·- Any gallinule.
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Water hog
·- The <<Capybara>>.
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Water horehound
·- <<Bugleweed>>.
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Water hyacinth
·- Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
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Water ice
·- Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
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Water inch
·- ·same·as Inch of water, under <<Water>>.
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Water joint
·- A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of...
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Water junket
·- The common sandpiper.
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Water laverock
·- The common sandpiper.
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Water leg
·- ·see <<Leg>>, 7.
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Water lemon
·- The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis);
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Water lettuce
·- A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge...
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Water level
·- The level formed by the surface of still water.
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Water lily
·- A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating lea...
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Water lime
·- Hydraulic lime.
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Water line
·- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at v...
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Water lizard
·- Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. ·see <<Monitor>>, ·noun, 3.
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Water locust
·- A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi va...
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Water meadow
·- A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being over...
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Water measure
·- A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, ·etc. The water-measure...
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Water measurer
·- Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. ·see <<Skater>>, ·noun, 2.
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Water meter
·- A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a st...
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Water milfoil
·- Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnat...
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Water mill
·- A mill whose machinery is moved by water;
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Water mint
·- A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling...
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Water mite
·- Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family H...
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Water moccasin
·- A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute ...
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Water mole
·- The duck mole. ·see under <<Duck>>.
II. Water mole ·- The shrew mole. ·see under <<Shrew>>.
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Water monitor
·- A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and ...
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Water monkey
·add. ·- A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
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Water motor
·- A water engine.
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Water mouse
·- Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasma...
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Water murrain
·- A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
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Water newt
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
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White-water
·noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
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