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A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.

• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERDOCK
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
• Water-soak
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• WATERFRAME
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• Composture
  Manure; compost.
• Water god
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Watertath
  A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
• WATERHOG
  The capybara.
• Groundsill
  See Ground plate (a), under Ground
• WATERTABLE
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the
• Waterishness
  The quality of being waterish.
• Water tu twist
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• WATERLINE
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heig
• Water agrimony
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Water lizard
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Waterwort
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

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