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Water

WATER, n. Wauter. [G., Gr.]
1. A fluid, the most abundant and most necessary for living beings of any in nature, except air. Water when pure, is colorless, destitute of taste and smell, ponderous, transparent, and in a very small degree compressible. It is reposited in the earth in inexhaustible quantities, where it is preserved fresh and cool, and from which it issues in springs, which form streams and rivers. But the great reservoirs of water on the globe are the ocean, seas and lakes, which cover more than three fifths of its surface, and from which it is raised by evaporation, and uniting with the air in the state of vapor, is wafted over the earth, ready to be precipitated in the form of rain, snow or hail.
Water by the abstraction or loss of heat becomes solid, or in other words, is converted into ice or snow; and by heat it is converted into steam, an elastic vapor, one of the most powerful agents in nature. Modern chemical experiments prove that water is a compound substance, consisting of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or rather the bases or ponderable matter of those gases; or about two volumes or measures of hydrogen gas and one of oxygen gas. The proportion of the ingredients in weight, is nearly 85 parts of oxygen to 15 of hydrogen.
2. The ocean; a sea; a lake; a river; any great collection of water; as in the phrases, to go by water, to travel by water.
3. Urine; the animal liquor secreted by the kidneys and discharged from the bladder.
4. The color or luster of a diamond or pearl, sometimes perhaps of other precious stones; as a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence the figurative phrase, a man or a genius of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
5. Water is a name given to several liquid substances or humors in animal bodies; as the water of the pericardium, of dropsy, etc.
Mineral waters, are those waters which are so impregnated with foreign ingredients, such as gaseous, sulphurous and saline substances, as to give them medicinal, or at least sensible properties. Most natural waters contain more or less of these foreign substances, but the proportion is generally too minute to affect the senses.
To hold water, to be sound or tight. [Obsolete or vulgar.]
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Bespattering Beverage Bicker Bid Bilge-water Biliary Bister Bit Bladder Blanching Blear Blister Bloat Blow-pipe Boat Boil Boiling Bolbitine Bold Boom Boot Bootlessly Bosquet Botetto Bottom Bottomless Bowlder Bowlder-wall Brackish Brawl Breakwater Bream Bridge Brim Brine Brine-pan Brine-pit Brine-spring Bring Bristol-water Broad-side Brome Brook Broth Bubble Bucket Bull-fight Bull-head Bulrush Buoy Buoyancy Buoyrope Burger-master Burial Bury But Butter By Calamint Calciferous Calcine Calender Calk Calx Camel-backed Camphor-tree Canal Candle Candle-bomb Capacity Carbureted Carding-machine Carefulness Carry Carrying Cascade Catachresttic Catadupe Cataract Catoptromancy Cats-paw Cauf Causey Cerasin Ceruse Chaffern Chalcedony Chalk-stone Chalybeate Channel Charcoal Charon Chart Chersonese Chesapeak Chocolate Chowder Christen Cicuta Ciderkin Cinnamon Circulate Circumfluence Circumnavigate Cistern Clay Clean Clear Clearness Clepsydra Cloud Coalery Coamings Cobalt Cobble Coddle Cognizance Cohoes Cohoze Cold Coldness Colophony Color Colorless Column Combination Command Composition Compound Compress Compressible Compute Concentrate Condense Conductor Conduit Confarreation Confine Confluence Congeal Congelation Congregate Conservatory Consolidate Constituent Conversion Convert Convey Conveyance Cool Coot Copal Coping Copper Copple-stones Cordial Cormorant Corpulency Correct Corrivate Cotton-mill Couch Could Counterbalance Country Course Cover Cowl Craber Cream Creature Cress Crystalize Cubic Cubical Cuckingstool Culvert Current Cut-water Cuttle-fish Dabble Dabbler Dabbling Dabchick Daggle Daggled Daggling Dam Dap Dash Dead-heartedness Deadwater Deadworks Debark Declivous Decoction Deep Deepen Defile Delacrymation Deliquescence Deliquiate Deliquiation Deluge Demersed Demersion Dephlegmate Dephlegmation Dephlegmedness Der Derivation Derive Devaporation Dew Diamond Didapper Die Diffuse Diffusibility Diffusion Diffusive Digester Dike Diluent Dilute Dioptrics Dip Dipper Dipping Dirt Dirty Discharge Discolor Disembogue Disemboguement Dish-water Dispensation Dispose Dissolution Dissolve Dissolvent Distemper Distill Distress Ditch Dive Diver Divide Diving Diving-bell Dock Doucker Douse Down Downwards Drab Drabble Drabbling Draft Dragonet Drain Drained Draining Draught Draw Draw-well Drawer Drench Dribble Drift Drift-sail Drill Drink Drip Drizzle Drop Drop-wort Drops Dropsy Drouth Drown Druse Dry Dryness Duck Duck-meat Ducked Ducking Ducking-stool Ducks-meat Dunning Earth Easterling Eaves Ebb Ebullition Eddish Eddy-water Effloresce Efflorescence Electricity Element Elutriate Elutriation Emboguing Emerge Emit Empire Emulsion Encounter Endemial Engine Enter Enucleation Eolipile Ephipora Equilibrate Essential Euripus Evaporate Even-tide Ewer Ewry Exhaust Exist Expand Expend Export Extract Face Fair Fairness Fall Fare Fast Fat Fecula Feeder Feeding Fen Ferry Ferryboat Fetch Fibrin Figurable Filatory Fill Final Find Fire Fire-engine Firebucket Firecock Fireplug Firmament Fish Flash Flat Fleshbroth Flirt Flixweed Float Float-board Floatage Floated Floating Floating-bridge Flood Floodgate Flooding Flow Flowing Fluent Fluid Flume Fly Fog Fogginess Foggy Foment Fomentation Font Food Force Forcer Ford Fordable Fording Form Foul Fount Fountain-tree Free Freeze Freight Fresco Fresh Freshen Freshes Freshet Freshness Freshwatered Fret Frigate From Frost Frosty Fusion Gad Gag Galactite Galban Galeeto Gallon Gate Gelatin Generate Genial Genitive Germander Gibstaff Gill Gill-opening Gladiole Gleet Glide Gnatworm Go Grainer Grallic Gram Granulate Granulation Gravity Grog Grotesque Ground Groundage Groundling Gruel Guhr Guillemot Gulf Gullied Gully Gum Gurgle Gush Gushing Gutter Hairworm Hamster Hand Harbor Hard Hastypudding Haze Head Headland Heal Heat Hepatized Hippopotamus Hiss Hoar-frost Hog Hogged Hold Hommony Honey Horseboat Horsepond Hose Hull Humbird Humect Humectation Humid Hungary-water Hydatid Hydra Hydracid Hydragogue Hydrangea Hydrant Hydrargillite Hydrate Hydraulic Hydrenterocele Hydro-oxyd Hydrocarbonate Hydrocele Hydrocephalus Hydrocyanic Hydrodynamic Hydrodynamics Hydrofluoric Hydrogen Hydrographer Hydrographic Hydrography Hydrolite Hydrology Hydromancy Hydromantic Hydromel Hydrometer Hydrometry Hydrophane Hydrophanous Hydrophobia Hydrophoby Hydropic Hydropneumatic Hydroscope Hydrostatic Hydrostatics Hydrothorax Hydrotic Hydroxanthate Hydrus Ice Icehouse Ichor Ichorous Icicle Ieland Igated Image Imbue Immerse Impervious Impure Impureness Inaquate Incompatible Incompressible Increase Indian Indigo Indispensable Indissoluble Indrench Inebriate Inexhaustible Infuse Insalubrity Insinuate Insoluble Insteep Insteeped Insular Interluency Intermediate Into Inundation Ionic Irredeemableness Irrigate Irrigated Irrigating Irrigation Irriguous Isinglass Island Isle Issue Itch Jam Jenny Jeopardy Jet Jetsam Jettison Jetty Journey Keelhaul Kelpy Kennel Kermes-mineral Kettle Key Kilogram Kingdom Knee-deep Knee-high Know Lac Lade Ladle Lake Lamprey Lanch Land Landflood Large Last Lather Lea Lead Leak Leaky Leat Lemonade Let Levant Lickerish Lie Lightness Limb Limber Limewater Limn Limning Liquid Liquor Little Live Lixivial Lixiviation Lixivious Lixivium Loam Lock Lode Log Look Low Lowness Luciform Lukewarm Lunet Lustral Lustration Lye Lymph Make Malt Manatus Manger Mangrove Map Mar Margaric Margot Marish Marsh Marsh-rocket Mash Mass Matter Mead Meadow Mechanic Medicinal Medium Medullin Meet Melon Menow Merganser Mersion Metal Metalline Metheglin Micturition Mighty Milkporridge Mill Milldam Milligram Millpond Millrace Mineral Mineralization Mineralize Miniature Miscible Missy Mist Mix Mixture Moat Moderate Moderately Moist Molder Mollusca Moor Moorish Moorland Moory More Mortar Mother-water Mouth Muddle Muddy Mudwort Muggish Mum Muriate Muriatic Murmur Mush Musketoe Naiad Narrow Narrows Nasus Natant Natation Navigable Navigation Neap Negation Negus Nenuphar Nephritic Nephritical Neptunian Neptunist Nerfling Nilometer Nuisance Nusance Nymph Ocean Offing Oil Ooze Ordeal Osier Ospray Ostiary Outfall Over Overboard Overflow Overshot Owser Oxycrate Oxygen Oyster Paddle Paigle Palmiped Panada Pant Pap Pass Passage Paste Patter Pay Pearl Pebblestone Pedatifid Pelican Penguin Peninsula Peninsulate Peninsulated Peninsulating Penstock Percolate Peril Perkin Permeable Permeate Pervious Petrifaction Petrol Phagedenic Phalarope Phlegmatic Phlem Piaba Pickle Piezometer Pike Pimpinel Pipe Piscary Pitcher Plan Plant Plantain Plash Plashy Plaster Platinum Plentiful Plenty Plow Plumb Plummet Plunge Pluvial Poach Pochard Pole Polypus Pond Pool Porridge Portage Potable Potage Pour Precipitation Preen Prodigious Propel Prospect Puddle Puffin Pumice Pump Punch Pure Pureness Purgation Purity Purl Purslain Pyrrhin Quab Quadrantal Quantity Quern Quicksand Race Radish Ragstone Rail Rain Rain-water Rambooze Rapids Rare Ravine Raw Reate Reception Reef Reflection Refrigeratory Remainder Replenish Requirement Reservoir Reship Resist Resistance Resolve Respiration Restrain Rheumatism Rheumy Rigation Rindle Rinse Rinsed Rinsing Ripple Rise River River-water Roach Rock-salt Rocket Roll Roof Rose-water Rosland Rot Row Row-port Rubble-stone Rudder Run Runnet Rush Rusma Sail Sailed Sailing Saligot Salination Salinous Salt Saltness Salts Salubrious Samphire Sapid Sapidity Sarcolite Satiate Saturation Sawyer Scald Scant Scarce Scaturient Scoop Scooper Scordium Scorpion Scour Scupper Scupper-hose Sea Sea-eel Sea-fish Sea-fowl Sea-gage Sea-girt Sea-green Sea-needle Sea-plant Sea-pool Sea-water Sea-weed Season Secondary Sepawn Serosity Serous Session Setaceous Settle Sewer Shadow Shale Shallow Shallowness Sheet Shelf Shelfy Sherbet Shibboleth Ship Shoal Shoaliness Shoot Shore Short Shove Shower Showered Shrink Sink Slack Slide Sling Slop Sluice Slump Smallage Smoke Smoothness Snow Snowbroth Soak Soap-suds Soda-water Sodium Soe Soft Soggy Soil Solid Soluble Solution Some Sound Sounding Sounding-rod Source Souse Sozzle Spatter Spatterdashes Spaw Specifical Speed Spericalness Spericity Spherical Sphragid Spill Spiral Spirit Splash Splashy Split Spoon-drift Spout Spray Spring Sprinkle Spunge Spurn-water Spurt Squeeze Squirt Stagnant Stagnate Stagnation Stalactite Stale Stamp Stand Standing Stank Starch Stay-tackle Steam Steam-boat Steam-vessel Steep Stolen Stone Stop Storax Strain Straiten Strand Stream Streamy Strength Strike String Strong Strong-water Stulm Subaquatic Subaqueous Submarine Submerge Submerged Submerging Submerse Submersion Suds Sufficient Sugar Suit Sulphore Sulphureous Sump Superfluity Supernatant Supernatural Supply Support Surfeit-water Surge Survey Suspensibility Suspiral Swallet Swamp Swang Swape Swash Sweep Sweet Sweeten Swim Swimm Swimming Swine-pocks Synthesis Tabbied Tabby Take Tan Tank Tantalize Tapir Tar-water Tarpaulin Temperature Tepid Terek Terraqueous Thatching Them Thermal Thick Thirst Thirsty Thos Through Throw Tiddle Tide-gate Tide-mill Tiffany To Toddy Torpedo Torrent Torture Touch Tow Towing Track Tract Trade Traject Transmutation Transmute Transparency Transport Transportation Trass Trench Trickle Trim Tripoli Trouble Trough Tuf Tune Turbid Turn Ulmin Umber Under Undercurrent Underset Undershot Undigenous Undisturbed Undrained Undulation Undulatory Unite Unpen Unship Unshowered Unslaked Unspent Untinged Unwashed Unwatered Unwonted Up Upper Urinator Urn Use Vale Valve Vapor Vapor-bath Vast Vegetate Vegetation Vegeto-animal Vehicle Vermil Version Victor Volatilize Vortex Voyage Voyager Wade Wading Waft Waftage Wafted Wake Walk Wall-spring Wallow Warp Warping Warping-bank Warping-clough Warping-cut Warping-drain Warping-gutter Warping-hatch Warping-sluice Wash Washed Washing Washy Waste Waste-gate Waste-wier Water Water-bearer Water-bellows Water-borne Water-carriage Water-cart Water-clock Water-color Water-course Water-cress Water-drop Water-engine Water-flag Water-flood Water-fly Water-fowl Water-furrow Water-gage Water-gall Water-god Water-gruel Water-guage Water-hammer Water-hen Water-level Water-line Water-logged Water-melon Water-mill Water-mint Water-ordeal Water-ouzel Water-poise Water-pot Water-proof Water-radish Water-rocket Water-rot Water-rotted Water-rotting Water-snake Water-soak Water-soaked Water-spout Water-thermometer Water-tight Water-way Water-wheel Water-work Water-wort Waterage Watered Waterer Waterfall Wateriness Watering Watering-place Waterish Waterishness Waterless Waterman Watery Wave Way-pane Wear Wearish Web Weeping-rock Weeping-spring Well Well-drain Well-room Well-water Wet Wetness Wharf Wheel-boat Whelm Whey Whirlpool Whist Whitewash Whosoever Wind Window With Wooded Worm Wrack Wring Wringer Yeast Yttria Zero Zigzag

 

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