Webster's Dictionary 1913

649

Water pimpernel

Wa″ter pim″per‐nel (?). (Bot.) A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

650

Water pipe

Wa″ter pipe (?). A pipe for conveying water.

651

Water pitcher

Wa″ter pitch″er (?). 1. A pitcher for water.2. (Bot.) One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.

652

Water plant

Wa″ter plant′ (?). A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

653

Water plantain

Wa″ter plan″tain (?). (Bot.) A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

654

Water plate

Wa″ter plate′ (?). A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

655

Water poa

Wa″ter po″a (?). (Bot.) Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.

656

Water pocket

Water pocket. A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.

657

Water poise

Wa″ter poise′ (?). A hydrometer.

658

Water pore

Wa″ter pore′ (?), 1. (Zoöl.) A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.2. (Bot.) One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They ar...

659

Water power

Wa″ter pow″er (?). 1. The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.2. A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.

660

Water pox

Wa″ter pox′ (?). (Med.) A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

661

Water privilege

Wa″ter priv″i‐lege (?). The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.

662

Water purslane

Wa″ter purs″lane (?). (Bot.) See under Purslane.

663

Water qualm

Wa″ter qualm′ (?). (Med.) See Water brash, under Brash.

664

Water rabbit

Wa″ter rab″bit (?). (Zoöl.) See Water hare.

665

Water radish

Wa″ter rad″ish (?). (Bot.) A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.

666

Water rail

Wa″ter rail′ (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.

667

Water ram

Wa″ter ram′ (?). An hydraulic ram.

668

Water rat

Wa″ter rat′ (?). 1. (Zoöl.) (a) The water vole. See under Vole. (b) The muskrat. (c) The beaver rat. See under Beaver.2. A thief on the water; a pirate.

669

Water rate

Wa″ter rate′ (?). A rate or tax for a supply of water.

670

Water rattle

{ Wa″ter rat″tle (?). Wa″ter rat″tler (?). } (Zoöl.) The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); — so called from its preference for damp places near water.

671

Water rice

Wa″ter rice″ (?). Indian rice. See under Rice.

672

Water rocket

Wa″ter rock″et (?). 1. (Bot.) A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

673

Water sail

Wa″ter sail′ (?). (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

674

Water sapphire

Wa″ter sap″phire (?). [Equiv. to F. saphir d'eau.] (Min.) A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; — called also saphir d'eau.

675

Water scorpion

Wa″ter scor″pi‐on (?). (Zoöl.) See Nepa.