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A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.

• 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.
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.
• WATERPILLAR
  A waterspout. [Obs.]
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBOATMAN
  A boat bug.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCEMENT
  Hydraulic cement.
• WATERSOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERFLEA
  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 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

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