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A holy-water stoup.

• Water plantain
  A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
• WATERCHICKWEED
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• WATERWING
  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 gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERNEWT
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

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