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A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

• Water caltrop
  The water chestnut.
• Water pennywort
  Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
• Whitened
  of Whiten
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Water cock
  A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• Water power
  The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
• Whitewash
  Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.
• WATERMONITOR
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
• WATERPOISE
  A hydrometer.
• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.
• WATERSAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• Water flea
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
• Water snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• WATERBOATMAN
  A boat bug.
• Flowerpot
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• WATERSTARWORT
  See under Starwort.
• Water gilding
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.

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