WAR SUPPLEMENT. WER 



of war, with the improvements ever pro- 1 WATER WEED, the Anacharis alfin* 

 gressing in modern gunnery, seem to render attrum. 



the defensive art powerless against the in- WATERING OF TEXTILE FABRIC?, a 

 creasing means of attack. A ship of war variegated reflecting surface given to silks, 

 may now be surrounded or covered with a &c., by passing them in a damp state through 

 flood of blazing petroleum oil, enclosed in rollers', which may be engraved with definite 

 detonating shells, and fired against her; or 'patterns at pleasure, or merely indented in 

 her crew may be suffocated by a shower of various ways. One fold of the fabric over 

 carbonic acid gas, easily capable of compres- another will also produce the effect, 

 sion within shells constructed to burst by WATERLANDIAN BAPTISTS, a sect of 

 Impact. The beat remedy science can sug- Baptists of Holland, so named from the dis- 

 gest is to keep the foe at a istance ; and if trict in which they originated. They claim 

 Paris had done this, and been encircled by a| chiefly the distinction of being moderate, 

 cordon of railway defence twenty miles in WATERPROOFING, rendering textile 

 diameter, mounted withau adequate service fabricg impervious to water,chiefly br means 

 of artillery on locomotive ca.Triai;es, all the| of the Mackintosh process of caouchouc 

 armies of Europe could not hare made a' between two layers of fabric . O iled cloths 

 complete investment of such a cirenit, and are anot her form of waterproofing ; and a 

 less than half her interiov force would havei useful an d advantageous waterproofing for 

 been more than sufficiit to man and mam-! Iadie8 . dresse8 which has also the merit of 

 tain such a line, with its railway means of. roudering t hem incombustible, except by 

 rapid transition to points of danger. Better mere cha rring, is a solution of equal quan, 

 defence than all, however, must be that moral titles of acetate of lead and powdered alum, 

 principle which under Divine direction dissolvei j in hot water separately, and mixed 

 makes and keeps society true to itself. (together. When the sediment subsides, and 

 LJ. A. S. J the pure liquid is drawn off, any fabric, how- 



WARL'S PASTE, a medicine which, ! ever r fi be dipt in it without injury, 



though of quack pretensions, has acquired and ren(lered bo th waterproof and unin- 

 some importance as a cure for old and re- fl ammab i e eTea after washing, 

 laxed piles and fistular tendencies, from I WAVE TIDAL, the great wave of the 

 the presence and active medical influence in 'tides which follows the apparent motion of 

 it of black pepper. | tne sun and moon round the world every 



WAinvicKiTK, boi-otitanate of iron and; twenty-four hours in a direction from east to 

 west, and therefore at the great rapidity In 



WASHIXGTONITE, a steel grey titani- 

 trous iron ore. 



equatorial regions of about 1,000 miles per 

 hour. It is not a current, but a successive 



WATCH ON BOARD OF SHIP, the dura- rii e of water level 

 tion of duty of the subdivision of ships' I WAX or WAXY OPAL, an inferior and 

 crews, called the Starboard and Port Watches, feebly iridescent variety of opal. 



A watch is usually four hours ; but between 

 four o'clock and eight P.M. the two dog or 

 short watches occur of two hours each. 



nale. 



WAYFARING iTREE, the Viburnum 

 lantana. 

 WEIR or WEAR, a caul or dam in a 



WATER CHESNUTS, the fruits of Trapa river. 



*. W'EBSTERITE, the mineral subsulphate 



WATERCRESS, the Nasturtium offici- of alumina 



WELWITSCHIA, the Jumboaot tropical 



WATER DEVIL, the larva of a species of; Africa, forming a genus of Guetdcece. Ac- 

 ffydropTtUus. cording to Dr. Hooker, a remarkable plant 



WATER DROPS, round crystals of colour- O f the sandy districts of the South African 



\v??^ T continent, in which it shoots upward like a 



>VATERljiLY,tneAiympftceaand.A*Mpfcar small inverted cone between the horizontal 

 leaves, rising from a few inches to about a 



WATKR SAPPHIRE, a nearly colourless foot in height, and increasing from a few 

 pale blue variety of the Oriental sapphire, inches across their upper surface to five or 



WATERSHED, the superficial and natural six feet, according to age, forming a series of 

 drainage, of a district by means of the rivers, remarkable wooden blocks, 

 streams, and rivulets, is so called in physical WKXDISH LAXGUAOK, the dialect of 

 geography. the Aryan languages spoken in Lusatia. 



U'ATKU-GLASS PAINTING, a newj WEREWOLF, the Lycanthrope, q.v. 

 method of fresco painting, in which, after WERGILD. Compensation for personal 

 the painting, the picture is fixed by a coat- injuries was so called by the Anglo Saxon 

 Ing of what is called water glass, which is a law, and it was payable either to the injured 

 preparation of silica reduced to a liquid form person, or, in the event of his death, to his 

 by boiling it in alkali, either soda or potash, next of kin. It was rated differently be- 

 The frescoes in the Lobby of the House of tween noble and ignoble offenders : the 

 tords have been so treated, but with doubt- former being charged six times the amount 

 ful permanency or success. of the latter. A similar claim is open f 



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