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<A NAME="waterhyacinth">
<B>water hyacinth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a floating or rooting aquatic plant of the same family as the pickerelweed, with violet or blue flowers and ovate leaves that have inflated, bladderlike petioles, native to tropical South America, and cultivated elsewhere. </DL>
<A NAME="waterice">
<B>water ice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Especially British.) a frozen dessert made of fruit juice, sugar, and water; sherbet. <DD><B> 2. </B>solid ice formed by the direct freezing of water, and not by the compacting of snow. </DL>
<A NAME="waterinch">
<B>water-inch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit equal to the quantity of water flowing in a given period, as one minute or 24 hours, through a circular opening one inch in diameter. </DL>
<A NAME="watering">
<B>watering, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the act of a person or thing that waters. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>(of eyes) discharging watery fluid; running. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of the mouth) secreting saliva profusely anticipation of appetizing food. <DD><B> 3. </B>irrigating. </DL>
<A NAME="wateringcan">
<B>watering can,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a can with a spout for sprinkling water on plants. </DL>
<A NAME="wateringcart">
<B>watering cart,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cart designed to carry water for watering plants or the streets. </DL>
<A NAME="wateringhole">
<B>watering hole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=water hole.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Informal.) a resort where there is bathing and boating; watering place. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>a popular or stylish night club, restaurant, or resort. <DD><B> b. </B>any popular or stylish public place or establishment. <BR> <I>Ex. a watering hole for artists or politicians.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wateringplace">
<B>watering place,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a resort with springs of mineral water. <DD><B> b. </B>a resort where there is bathing, boating. <DD><B> 2. </B>a place where water may be obtained. </DL>
<A NAME="wateringpot">
<B>watering pot,</B> <B>=watering can.</B></DL>
<A NAME="wateringtrough">
<B>watering trough,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a trough in which water is provided for domestic animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>a long, shallow trough parallel to the rails, from which water is scooped by steam locomotives in passing. </DL>
<B>water jacket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a casing with water in it, put around something to keep it cool or at a certain temperature. </DL>
<A NAME="waterjacket">
<B>waterjacket, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to enclose in or fit with a water jacket. </DL>
<A NAME="waterjet">
<B>water-jet, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> operated by a stream of water sent out with force from a small opening. <BR> <I>Ex. a water-jet loom, water-jet propulsion.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="waterjump">
<B>water jump,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an obstacle consisting of or including a body of water across which horses must jump in a steeplechase. </DL>
<A NAME="waterleaf">
<B>waterleaf, </B>noun, pl. <B>-leafs</B> or <B>-leaves.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any herb of a group of North America with clusters of white or purplish flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="waterleaffamily">
<B>waterleaf family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous herbs having characteristics similar to those of the borage family and commonly cultivated as ornamentals. The family includes the waterleaf, baby blue-eyes, and tarbush. </DL>
<A NAME="waterless">
<B>waterless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> using or containing little or no water. <BR> <I>Ex. waterless cooking. We know that the moon is an airless, waterless world (Atlantic).</I> adv. <B>waterlessly.</B> noun <B>waterlessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="waterlettuce">
<B>water lettuce,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a common floating plant of the tropics with a rosette of rounded and downy leaves. <BR> <I>Ex. Water lettuce ... spends its life afloat, supported by spongy, air-filled tissue on the bottom surface of its leaves (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="waterlevel">
<B>water level,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the surface level of a stream, lake, or other body of water. <BR> <I>Ex. The water level of the pond rose after the heavy rains.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the surface level of a body of static water, as in a tank, boiler, or cistern. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plane below which the rock or soil is saturated with water; water table. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Nautical.) water line. <DD><B> 4. </B>an instrument for showing the level of fluid, in which water is used instead of alcohol. </DL>
<A NAME="waterlily">
<B>water lily,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a water plant having flat, floating leaves and showy, fragrant, white, pink, yellow, or blue flowers; pond lily; water nymph. A common North American variety has fragrant, white or pink flowers. <DD><B> 2. </B>any other plant of the water-lily family. <DD><B> 3. </B>any showy-flowered aquatic plant. <DD><B> 4. </B>the flower of any one of these plants. </DL>
<A NAME="waterlilyfamily">
<B>water-lily family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a widely distributed group of dicotyledonous water plants that are herbs and are characterized by large floating leaves and showy flowers, such as the water lily, fanwort, lotus, and spatterdock. </DL>
<A NAME="waterline">
<B>water line,</B> or <B>waterline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the line where the surface of the water touches the side of a ship or boat. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several lines marked on the hull of a ship to show the depth to which it sinks when unloaded, partly loaded, or fully loaded. </DL>
<A NAME="waterlog">
<B>water-log, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-logged,</B> <B>-logging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to cause to be or to become water-logged. </DL>
<A NAME="waterlogged">
<B>water-logged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>so full of water that it will barely float. <DD><B> 2. </B>thoroughly soaked with water. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) bogged down. <BR> <I>Ex. water-logged in details.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="waterloo">
<B>Waterloo, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any decisive or crushing defeat. <BR> <I>Ex. to meet one's Waterloo.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a cause of ruin or defeat; undoing. <BR> <I>Ex. Cicero's Waterloo ... was a woman (S. K. Obereck).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="watermain">
<B>water main,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large pipe for carrying water, especially one by which water is supplied, through smaller pipes, to many buildings or to various parts of a large building. </DL>
<A NAME="waterman">
<B>waterman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who works on a boat or among boats; boatman. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=oarsman.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="watermanship">
<B>watermanship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art of a waterman; skill in rowing or managing boats. </DL>
<A NAME="watermarigold">
<B>water marigold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an aquatic composite herb of North America, having yellow flower heads and submerged, finely dissected leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="watermark">
<B>watermark, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a mark showing how high water has risen or how low it has fallen. <BR> <I>Ex. the high watermark of a river.</I> <DD><B> 1a. </B>a distinguishing mark or design impressed in the substance of a sheet of paper during manufacture. It is usually barely visible except when the sheet is held against the light. <DD><B> b. </B>the metal design from which the impression is made, usually an ornamental figure of wire, fastened on the mold or dandy roll, pressure of which makes the paper thinner and more translucent at that point. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put a watermark in. Some letter paper is watermarked. <DD><B> 2. </B>to impress (a mark or design) as a watermark. </DL>
<A NAME="watermeadow">
<B>water meadow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a meadow kept fertile by the overflow of adjoining streams from time to time. </DL>
<A NAME="watermelon">
<B>watermelon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, roundish or oblong fruit with red, pink, or yellow pulp with much sweet, watery juice, and a hard, green rind. It is good to eat. <DD><B> 2. </B>the vine bearing this fruit. It is a slender, trailing vine belonging to the gourd family. </DL>
<A NAME="watermeter">
<B>water meter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of water drawn from a water main, public water system,or well, by a particular user or group of users. </DL>
<A NAME="watermilfoil">
<B>water milfoil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any perennial water plant of a group having very finely divided submerged leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="watermill">
<B>water mill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mill, especially a grist mill, whose machinery is run by water power. </DL>
<A NAME="watermite">
<B>water mite,</B> <B>=water spider.</B></DL>
<A NAME="watermoccasin">
<B>water moccasin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, poisonous snake that lives in swamps and along streams in the southern United States; cottonmouth. It is a pit viper like the rattlesnake. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various similar but harmless water snakes. </DL>
<A NAME="watermold">
<B>water mold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fungus that lives in water or wet soil, feeding on decaying plants and animals, and sometimes parasitic on aquatic animals. </DL>
<A NAME="watermonitor">
<B>water monitor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large monitor lizard found from India to northern Australia, usually near the banks of rivers and streams. </DL>
<A NAME="watermoth">
<B>water moth =caddis fly.</B></DL>
<A NAME="watermotor">
<B>water motor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any form of motor or engine that is operated by the kinetic energy, pressure, or weight of water, especially a small turbine or waterwheel fitted to a pipe supplying water, as for driving sewing machines or other light machinery. </DL>
<A NAME="watermouse">
<B>water mouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an Australian murine rodent. </DL>
<A NAME="waternymph">
<B>water nymph,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek and Roman Mythology.) a nymph or goddess living in or associated with some body of water, such as a Naiad, Nereid, or Oceanid. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a group of water plants; water lily. </DL>
<A NAME="wateroak">
<B>water oak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an oak found especially along streams and in swamps in the southeastern United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of several other American oaks. </DL>
<A NAME="waterofcrystallization">
<B>water of crystallization,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> water that is present in chemical combination in certain crystalline substances. When the water is removed by heating, the crystals break up into a powder. </DL>
