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1: water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove

1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius [syn: {Aquarius}] 2: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18 [syn: {Aquarius}, {A...

1: a bed with a mattress made of strong plastic that is filled with water

1: any of numerous aquatic beetles usually having a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs for swimming

1: birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark [syn: {swamp birch}, {mountain birch}, {Western paper birch}, {Western birch}, {Betula fontinalis}]

1: freshwater aquatic bird [syn: {waterfowl}, {waterbird}]

1: a thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese

1: hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts [syn: {water hickory}, {bitter pecan}, {Carya aquatica}]

1: blister containing a nonpurulent clear watery content

1: carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs [syn: {boat bug}]

1: a bottle for holding water

1: an assistant who supplies drinking water [syn: {waterer}]

1: Asiatic buffalo often domesticated for use as a draft animal [syn: {water ox}, {Asiatic buffalo}, {Bubalus bubalis}]

1: a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water 2: small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest [syn: {German cockroach}, ...

1: a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater

1: plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America [syn: {water crowfoot}, {Ranunculus aquatilis}]

1: pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes [syn: {pistia}, {water lettuce}, {Pistia stratiotes}, {Pistia stratoites}]

1: a variety of water chestnut [syn: {Jesuits' nut}, {Trapa natans}]

1: a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) [syn: {watercannon}]

1: aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States [syn: {water mat}, {Chrysosplenium americanum}]

1: cart with a tank for water (especially with fresh water for sale)

1: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits [syn: {water chestnut plant}, {caltrop}] 2: Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers [syn: {Chinese water chestnu...

1: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits [syn: {water chestnut}, {caltrop}]

1: largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa [syn: {water deer}, {Hyemoschus aquaticus}]

1: small Indian lettuce of northern regions [syn: {blinks}, {blinking chickweed}, {Montia lamprosperma}]

1: water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds [syn: {American lotus}, {yanquapin}, {Nelumbo lutea}] 2: edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus ...

1: chute with flowing water down which toboggans and tubes and people slide into a pool

1: clock that measures time by the escape of water [syn: {clepsydra}, {water glass}]

1: a toilet in England [syn: {closet}, {W.C.}, {loo}]

1: water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves [syn: {Marsilea quadrifolia}]

1: a public utility that provides water [syn: {waterworks}]

1: the conservation of water resources

1: a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water

1: plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America [syn: {water buttercup}, {Ranunculus aquatilis}]

1: largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa [syn: {water chevrotain}, {Hyemoschus aquaticus}]

1: making an area of water more useful [syn: {water project}, {water program}]

1: a person who enjoys being in or on the water [syn: {water rat}] 2: a dog accustomed to water and usually trained to retrieve waterfowl

1: make less strong or intense; "water down the mixture" 2: thin by adding water to; "They watered down the moonshine"

1: North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers [syn: {lizard's-tail}, {swamp lily}, {Saururus cernuus}] 2: swamp plant of Europe and North Am...

1: European poisonous herb having tuberous roots, yellow juice that stains the skin, yellow flowers and foliage resembling celery; all parts extremely poisonous [syn: {hemlock water dropwort}, {Oenant...

1: Eurasian elm closely resembling the American elm; thrives in a moist environment [syn: {Ulmus laevis}] 2: large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North Am...

1: a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: {water tap}, {tap}, {spigot}, {hydrant}]

1: European poisonous herb with fibrous roots [syn: {Oenanthe aquatica}]

1: ferns that grow in water [syn: {aquatic fern}]

1: a filter to remove impurities from the water supply

1: forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil [syn: {divining rod}, {dowser}, {dowsing rod}, {waterfinder}]

1: cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands [syn: {great duckweed}, {Spirodela polyrrhiza}]

1: minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms...

1: a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water [syn: {drinking fountain}, {bubbler}]

1: gauge for indicating the level of water in e.g. a tank or boiler or reservoir [syn: {water gauge}, {water glass}]

1: a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows

1: a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coal

1: regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice [syn: {sluicegate}, {sluice valve}, {floodgate}, {penstock}, {head gate}]

1: gauge for indicating the level of water in e.g. a tank or boiler or reservoir [syn: {water gage}, {water glass}]

1: a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers [syn: {American featherfoil}, {Hottonia inflata}]

1: a viscous glass consisting of sodium silicate in solution; used as a cement or as a protective coating and to preserve eggs [syn: {soluble glass}, {sodium silicate}] 2: a glass for drinking water 3...

1: columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood [syn: {Nyssa aquatica}]

1: plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water [syn: {water pistol}, {squirt gun}, {squirter}]

1: the banging sound of steam in pipes

1: hazard provided by ponds of water that the golfer must avoid

1: a heater and storage tank to supply heated water [syn: {hot-water heater}, {hot-water tank}]

1: tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas [syn: {Cicuta verosa}]

1: North American coot [syn: {American coot}, {marsh hen}, {mud hen}, {Fulica americana}] 2: any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and ...

1: hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts [syn: {bitter pecan}, {water bitternut}, {Carya aquatica}]

1: a natural hole or hollow containing water

1: aromatic perennial herb of United States [syn: {Lycopus americanus}]

1: Eurasia; northern North America to Virginia [syn: {swamp horsetail}, {Equisetum fluviatile}]

1: a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States [syn: {water orchid}, {Eichhornia crassipes}, {Eichhorn...

1: water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks" [syn: {ice}] 2: an ice containing no milk

1: a container filled with water that surrounds a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine

1: a jug that holds water

1: a pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest

1: the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle [syn: {bell apple}, {sweet cup}, {yellow granadilla}]

1: pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes [syn: {pistia}, {water cabbage}, {Pistia stratiotes}, {Pistia stratoites}]

1: the level of the surface of a body of water 2: underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water; "spring rains had raised the water table" [syn: {water table}, {groundwater...

1: an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae

1: a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship [syn: {waterline}, {water level}] 2: a line marking the level reached...

1: erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water [syn: {Lobelia dortmanna}]

1: honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood [syn: {swamp locust}, {Gleditsia aquatica}]

1: main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water

1: aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States [syn: {water carpet}, {Chrysosplenium americanum}]

1: meter for measuring the quantity of water passing through a particular outlet

1: an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers

1: a mill powered by a water wheel

1: a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America [syn: {water-mint}, {Mentha aquatica}]

1: venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States [syn: {cottonmouth}, {cottonmouth moccasin}, {Agkistrodon piscivorus}] 2: any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh...

1: parasitic or saprobic organisms living chiefly in fresh water or moist soil

1: submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water [syn: {naiad}] 2: a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of ...

1: relatively tall deciduous water oak of southeastern United States often cultivated as a shade tree; thrives in wet soil [syn: {possum oak}, {Quercus nigra}]

1: the water present in hydrated compounds [syn: {water of crystallization}, {water of hydration}]

1: the water present in hydrated compounds [syn: {water of crystallisation}, {water of hydration}]

1: the water present in hydrated compounds [syn: {water of crystallization}, {water of crystallisation}]

1: hydrarthrosis affecting the knee

1: a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States [syn: {water hyacinth}, {Eichhornia crassipes}, {Eichho...

1: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: {dipper}]

1: Asiatic buffalo often domesticated for use as a draft animal [syn: {water buffalo}, {Asiatic buffalo}, {Bubalus bubalis}]

1: stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia [syn: {Sium suave}]

1: a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems [syn: {watershed}, {divide}]

1: any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine [syn: {diuretic drug}, {diuretic}]

1: a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus

1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers...

1: plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water [syn: {water gun}, {squirt gun}, {squirter}]

1: a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth [syn: {aquatic plant}, {hydrophyte}, {hydrophytic plant}]

1: marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves [syn: {Alisma plantago-aquatica}]

1: pollution of the water in rivers and lakes

1: a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal

1: a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants [syn: {hydathode}, {water stoma}]

1: making an area of water more useful [syn: {water development}, {water project}]

1: making an area of water more useful [syn: {water development}, {water program}]

1: the pump in the cooling system of an automobile that cause the water to circulate

1: a person who enjoys being in or on the water [syn: {water dog}] 2: common large Eurasian vole [syn: {water vole}, {Arvicola amphibius}] 3: any of various amphibious rats

1: right of access to water [syn: {riparian right}]

1: a deep blue cordierite often used as a gemstone

1: a motorboat resembling a motor scooter [syn: {sea scooter}, {scooter}]

1: long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube

1: perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface [syn: {buckb...

1: any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams

1: long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water [syn: {water strider}, {pond-skater}]

1: broad ski for skimming over water towed by a speedboat v : ride water skis

1: a container of skin for holding water [syn: {waterskin}]