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An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

• 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.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• 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.
• POINTDAPPUI
  See under Appui.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• 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.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERCRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.

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