Chapter Wasteboard to Weather of W by Soule's Synonymes

2. Canal, drain, trench, ditch, channel, fosse, moat, sewer, leat.

Water-crake, n. See Water-ousel.

Water-crow, n. See Water-ousel.

Water-cure, n. Hydropathy.

Water-doctor, n. Hydropathist.

Watered silk. Tabby.

Water-elder, n. (Bot.) Guelder-rose, snowball-tree (Viburnum opulis).

Water-elephant, n. Hippopotamus.

Waterfall, n. Cataract, cascade, fall.

Water-hen, n. Gallinule, spotted crake (Crex porzana or Gallinula chloropus).

Water-hog, n. Capibara, cabiai (Hydrochœrus capybara).

Waterish, a.

1. Aqueous, moist, wet, watery.

2. Thin, diluted, weak, like water, watery.

Waterman, n. Boatman, ferryman.

Water-mole, n.

1. Shrew-mole (Scalops aquaticus).

2. Duck-bill, ornithorynchus, platypus, mullangong, tambreet (Ornithorynchus paradoxus).

Water-nymph, n. Naiad.

Water-oats, n. pl. (Bot.) Canada-rice, Indian-rice (Zizania aquatica).

Water-ousel, Water-ouzel, n. Dipper, water-crake, water-crow (Cinclus aquaticus).

Water-pepper, n. Smart-weed (Polyganum hydropiper).

Water-pimpernel, n. Brookweed.

Water-poise, n. Hydrometer, areometer.

Water-pox, n. (Med.) Varicella.

Water-qualm, n. Water-brash, pyrosis.

Water-ram, n. Hydraulic-ram.