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The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.

• Water cock
  A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• Water power
  The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
• WATERCHICKWEED
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water doctor
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
• Water-retting
  of Water-ret
• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Water flea
  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 snail
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• WATERVINE
  Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.
• Water gilding
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Water tabby
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Wateriness
  The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
• Water turkey
  The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Water adder
  The water moccasin.

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