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<A NAME="waterspeedwell">
<B>water speedwell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a common speedwell growing in wet places. </DL>
<A NAME="waterspider">
<B>water spider,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various aquatic spiders, such as a European freshwater spider that makes a baglike nest opening downward beneath the surface of the water, so that it may be filled with air brought down in bubbles on the spider's body. </DL>
<A NAME="watersplash">
<B>watersplash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shallow stream or ford crossing a road. </DL>
<A NAME="waterspout">
<B>waterspout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pipe that takes away or spouts water, especially one used to drain water from a roof. <DD><B> 2. </B>a rapidly spinning column or cone of mist, spray, and water, produced by the action of a whirlwind over the ocean or a large lake. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a sudden, very heavy fall of rain; cloudburst. </DL>
<A NAME="watersprite">
<B>water sprite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sprite, nymph, or spirit, supposed to live in water, such as a Naiad, Nereid, or kelpie. </DL>
<A NAME="waterstarwort">
<B>water starwort,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any slender tiny-flowered herb of a group growing either in water or damp soil. </DL>
<A NAME="waterstone">
<B>water stone,</B> <B>=hydrolite.</B></DL>
<A NAME="waterstrider">
<B>water strider,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any long-legged bug of a family that walks on the surface of water and feeds on other insects. </DL>
<A NAME="waterstruck">
<B>water-struck, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (of bricks) that have been dipped in water after leaving the mold and before firing. </DL>
<A NAME="watersupply">
<B>water supply,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>water for the use of a community or particular area. <DD><B> 2. </B>the process of collecting and piping water for a community or particular area. </DL>
<A NAME="watersystem">
<B>water system,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>reservoirs, wells, pipes, and other equipment, together with the persons responsible for them, by which water is provided to a city; physical plant and personnel of a water supply. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=water supply.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a river with all its tributary streams. </DL>
<A NAME="watertable">
<B>water table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the level below which the ground is saturated with water. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Architecture.) a projecting course, molding, or the like, sloping on top, to throw off rainfall. </DL>
<A NAME="waterthrush">
<B>water thrush,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any American warbler of a group usually found close to a running stream and resembling small thrushes, such as the Louisiana water thrush and the northern water thrush. <DD><B> 2. </B>a European water ouzel. </DL>
<A NAME="watertight">
<B>watertight, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>so tight that no water can get in or out. Ships are often divided into watertight compartments by watertight partitions. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) leaving no opening as for misunderstanding or criticism; perfect. <BR> <I>Ex. a watertight argument.</I> noun <B>watertightness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="watertower">
<B>water tower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a very tall structure for the storage of water, such as a standpipe, or that by which a tank cistern is supported, by means of which water may be supplied to a building or community at a constant pressure. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fire-extinguishing apparatus used to throw water on the upper parts of tall buildings. </DL>
<A NAME="watertubeboiler">
<B>water-tube boiler,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a steam boiler in which the water circulates through tubes exposed to fire and the gases of combustion. </DL>
<A NAME="waterturbine">
<B>water turbine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a turbine which uses water from a dam, waterfall, or the like, for its motive power; turbine operated by the force of a current of water. </DL>
<A NAME="waterturkey">
<B>water turkey,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, blackish bird with a long tail and snakelike neck, found in swampy areas of the southern United States and south through tropical America; snakebird; anhinga. </DL>
<A NAME="watervapor">
<B>water vapor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> water in a gaseous state, especially when fairly diffused, as it is in the air, and below the temperature of boiling, as distinguished from steam. </DL>
<A NAME="watervascular">
<B>water-vascular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the water-vascular system. </DL>
<A NAME="watervascularsystem">
<B>water-vascular system,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the system of waterfilled canals connecting the tube feet of echinoderms. </DL>
<A NAME="waterwagon">
<B>water wagon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a truck or cart fitted with a large tank for carrying water. <BR><I>expr. <B>on the water wagon,</B> </I>(Informal.) not drinking alcoholic liquor; in or into a state of temperance. <BR> <I>Ex. Spain took the pledge and got on the water wagon (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="waterward">
<B>waterward, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> toward the water. <BR> <I>Ex. The thoughts of the five million boatowners throughout our land turn waterward (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="waterwave">
<B>water wave,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a wave set into wet hair with combs and dried with heat. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wave of water. </DL>
<A NAME="waterwave">
<B>water-wave, </B>transitive verb, <B>-waved,</B> <B>-waving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to arrange (hair) in a water wave. </DL>
<A NAME="waterway">
<B>waterway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a river, canal, or other body of water that ships can go on. <BR> <I>Ex. Seine River and its branches form the chief commercial waterway of France (W. R. McConnell).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a channel for water. <DD><B> 3. </B>a hollowed plank along either side of a ship's deck for draining off water through the scuppers. </DL>
<A NAME="waterweed">
<B>waterweed, </B>noun, or <B>water weed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any aquatic plant with inconspicuous flowers, such as the pondweed. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=elodea.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="waterwheel">
<B>water wheel,</B> or <B>waterwheel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a wheel turned with water and designed to drive machinery, such as that of a mill or pump. The grindstones of grain mills used to be run by water wheels. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wheel for raising water, especially for irrigation purposes, by means of buckets or boxes fitted on its circumference. </DL>
<A NAME="waterwhite">
<B>water-white, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> colorless and transparent, as water or glass. noun <B>waterwhiteness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="waterwings">
<B>water wings,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> two waterproof bags filled with air and put under a person's arms to hold him afloat while he is learning to swim. </DL>
<B>water witching,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the practice of dowsing. </DL>
<A NAME="waterwork">
<B>waterwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a pageant exhibited on the water. <DD><B> 2. </B>waterworks. </DL>
<A NAME="waterworks">
<B>waterworks, </B>noun pl. or sing.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>water works</B> (often sing. in use). <DD><B> a. </B>a system of pipes, reservoirs, water towers, pumps, and other equipment, for supplying a city or town with water. <DD><B> b. </B>a building with machinery for pumping water; pumping station. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a flow of tears, especially a sudden and violent flow. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) an ornamental fountain or cascade. </DL>
<A NAME="waterworn">
<B>waterworn, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> worn or smoothed by the action of water. <BR> <I>Ex. waterworn pebbles rattling under the pounding surf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="watery">
<B>watery, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of water; connected with water. <DD><B> 2. </B>full of water; wet. <BR> <I>Ex. watery soil.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>indicating rain. <BR> <I>Ex. a watery sky.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>having much rain; rainy. <BR> <I>Ex. a watery summer.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>full of tears; tearful. <BR> <I>Ex. watery eyes.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>containing too much water. <BR> <I>Ex. watery soup.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>like water. <BR> <I>Ex. a watery discharge.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>pale or thin in color. <BR> <I>Ex. a watery blue.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>weak; insipid; ineffectual; vapid. <BR> <I>Ex. a watery but harmless story.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>in or under water. <BR> <I>Ex. A drowned person or a sunken ship goes to a watery grave.</I> noun <B>wateriness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="wats">
<B>WATS</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Wide Area Telephone Service (a system of unlimited long-distance telephone service for a flat monthly charge, used by business and industry). </DL>
<A NAME="watsoncrick">
<B>Watson-Crick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with various genetic concepts and hypotheses, such as the double helix and the central dogma, postulated by the American biologist James D. Watson (born 1928) and the English biologist Francis H. C. Crick (born 1916). <BR> <I>Ex. ... the so-called Watson-Crick Theory, which holds that all genetic traits are basically derived from the structure of a kind of master molecule in the chromosomes called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="watsoncrickmodel">
<B>Watson-Crick model,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a model of the double-helical molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid; double helix. </DL>
<A NAME="watt">
<B>watt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of electric power equal to the flow of one ampere under the pressure of one volt, to one joule or (10 to the power of 7) ergs per second, or to 1/746 horsepower. <BR> <I>Ex. My lamp uses 60 watts; my toaster uses 1,000 watts.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) w (no period). </DL>
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<A NAME="wattage">
<B>wattage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the amount of electric power, measured in watts, especially kilowatts. <DD><B> 2. </B>the power, in watts, necessary for the operation of an electrical appliance, motor, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="watteau">
<B>Watteau, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> designating things associated with Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), a French painter, or his paintings, as style of dress and coloring. </DL>
<A NAME="watteauback">
<B>Watteau back,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an arrangement of the back of a dress with a broad pleat falling from the neck to the end of the skirt without being gathered in at the waist. </DL>
<A NAME="watthour">
<B>watt-hour, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a measure of electrical energy or work, equal to the work done by one watt acting for one hour. (Abbr:) w.-hr. </DL>
