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A channel for water.

• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• 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.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.
• WATERPILLAR
  A waterspout. [Obs.]
• Waterbok
  A water buck.
• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• WATERBOATMAN
  A boat bug.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• WATERCEMENT
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERSOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.

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