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The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERELDER
  The guelder-rose.
• Water gage
  See Water gauge.
• Water spider
  An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries d
• WATERGERMANDER
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• Liquidized
  of Liquidize
• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERJUNKET
  The common sandpiper.
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterway
  Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
• WATERMETER
  A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• WATERWILLOW
  An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
• Water meadow
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• LIQUIDAIR
  A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of its c
• WATERPARSNIP
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.

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