water-pore 
of certain plants, through which water is fre- 
quently expressed. It resembles an ordinary stoma, 
but has' 110 gnardian-cells, ami is situated directly over 
tile extremities of the fibers of the framework. These 
apertures are of various size and form. 
water-post (wa'ter-post), II. A post (often a 
lamp-post) to which a pressure-gage is affixed, 
the gage being connected with the main and 
supply branches of a water-pipe, and serving 
to indicate the water-pressure in some part of 
a svstem of water-supply. 
water-pot (wa'ter-pot), «. [< ME. water-pot, 
water-pott, icatir-pot ; < icater -\- pof^ .'\ 1. Any 
pot or vessel for holding, conveying, or dis- 
tributing water. 
Therefor the woniman leftc the watir pott and went into 
the citie. Wydif, John iv. 28. 
2. Same as watering-pot, 1. 
To use his eyes for garden water -iiots, 
Ay, and laying autumn's dust. 
Shah., Lear, iv. 6. 200. 
3. A chamber-pot. 
water-pouket, «. [< wat^r + pouke, a pimple 
or blister, a little pouch or poke holding water ; 
cf. pol;c", poiicli.^ Same as vesicle, 1 (6). 
water-power (wa'ter-pou"er), II. The power of 
water employed, or capable of being employed, 
as a prime mover in machinery ; hence, a fall 
or descent in a stream capable of being utilized 
for mechanical purposes. 
The water-power to which a riparian owner is entitled 
consists of the fall in the stream when in its natural state, 
as it passes through his land, or along the boundaries of it. 
Or, in other words, it consists of the difference of level 
between the surface where the stream first touches his 
land and tlie surface wliere it leaves it. 
Gibson, 0. J., 3 Eawle (Ponn.), p. 90. 
Absorbent-strata water-power. See absorbent. 
water-pox (wa'ter-poks), n. Varicella or 
chicken-pox. 
water-press (wa'ter-pres), n. Same as hydro- 
static or hydraulic press. See hydraulic. E. H. 
Knight. 
water-prism (wa'ter-prizm), «. In a canal or 
river, tlie body of water at any part of its course 
as determined by the cross-section at that part, 
regarded as a cross-section of a prism. 
The Yazoo river, by measurements, returned 129,000 cu- 
bic feet per second at the date of highest water at Viciis- 
burg (June 27) to the water-prim. 
Gov. iieport on Missignippi River, 1861 (rep. 1876X p. 80. 
water-privilege (wa'ter-priv'i-lej), n. 1. The 
right to use water ; especially, the right to use 
running water to turn machinery. See tvater- 
power. — 2. A stream or body of water capable 
of being utilized in driving machinery. [U. S.] 
waterproof (wa't6r-prof), a. and n. [Also 
water-proof; < water -H proof, a.] I. a. Im- 
pervious to water, or nearly so — Waterproof 
glue. See glue. 
II. n. 1. Any material which repels water; 
especially, a light woolen cloth made for the 
purpose, "and subjected to some waterproofing 
application. — 2. A garment of some material 
that repels water, made either of waterproof ( 1 ), 
or of mackintosh or a similar material made 
with india-rubber. 
"There is going to be rain, Sheila," her father said, 
smelling the moisture in the keen air. "Will you hef 
your waterproof?" W. Black, Princess of Thule, xxvi. 
Just as we reached it the mist turned to heavy rain. 
This is tlie depressing side of siglit-seeing in Scotland ; 
you must take your holidays in water-proofs. 
Harpers Mag., LXXVII. 946. 
waterproof (wa'ter-prof), r. t. [< wateiproof, 
o.] To render impervious to water, as cloth, 
leather, etc. 
Thirty yards of waterproofed and polished fly-line of 
braided silk. The Century, XXVI. 378. 
waterproofer (wa'ter-pro'fer), H. One who 
renders materials waterproof. 
Waterj/roofers and lamp-black makers. 
Laruet, 1890, 1. 420. 
waterproofing (wa'ter-pr8"fing), n. [Verbal 
n. of waterproof, ».] 1. The process or method 
of rendering impervious to water, as clothing, 
boots and shoes, and fishing-lines. 
Tlie final combination of dubtiing, whitening, water- 
proofing, etc., it is claimed, gives the leather a superior 
finish. C. T. Davis, Leatlier, p. Sfte. 
2. The material with which a substance is made 
waterproof, as caoutchouc, a varnish, or an oil. 
As umbrellas were not used by men, as being too effem- 
inate, and india-rubber watei-proofing was only to be dis- 
covered more than a century later, men in Anne's reign 
had to put their trust in good liroadulotli cloaks. 
J. Ashton, .Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 1. 1.59. 
water-propeller (wa'tcr-pro-pel"tr), «. A ro- 
tary pump. A'. //. Knight. 
water-pump (wa'ter-pump), n. A pump for 
water: used humorously of the eyes. 
6846 
" Thank you, Dobbin," he said, rubbing his eyes with 
his knuckles. . . . The water-pumps were at work again, 
and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did 
not also twinkle. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxiv. 
water-puppy (wa'ter-pup''''i), H. Same as water- 
dog, 2. 
water-purpie (wa't6r-p^r''''pi), n. [< water -h 
purple, a Sc. corruption of purple.l A spe- 
cies of Veronica, V. Beccabunga, found in moist 
places; brook-lime. [Scotch.] 
Cresses or water-purpie, and a bit ait-cake, can serve 
the Master for breakfast as weel as Caleb. 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xviii. 
water-purslane (wa'ter-pers'lan), n. Seepurs- 
lane. 
water-pyet, »(. See watcr-piet. 
water-quaket (wa'ter-kwak), n. A violent dis- 
turbance of water. [Rare.] 
Wittlesmere . . . doth sometimes in Calnies and faire 
weather sodainly rise tempestuously, as it were, into vio- 
lent water-quakes, to the danger of the poore fishermen. 
Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 600. (Davies.) 
water-qualm (wa'ter-kwam), n. Pyrosis. 
water-quenched (wa'ter-kwencht), a. Cooled 
by immersion in water : a term frequently used 
in speaking of tempering steel and similar oper- 
ations. 
water-quintain (wa'ter-kwin'tan), n. The 
sport of tilting at the quintain by a person 
standing in a boat, which was rowed rapidly 
past. If the filter was not sufficiently alert, 
the return of the quintain threw him into the 
water. 
water-rabbit (wa'ter-rab'it), n. The swamp- 
hare of the lower Mississippi valley, Lepus 
aquaticiis. See cut under swamp-hare. 
water-radish (wa'ter-rad'ish), II. A tall water- 
cress. Nasturtium amphibium, of wet places in 
the northern Old World. Other species of Nas- 
turtium are also so named. Also radish. 
water-rail (wa'ter-ral), n. 1. The common 
rail of Europe, Ballus aquaticiis, as distinguished 
from land-rail, Crex pratensis ; any species of 
Balliis. — 2. The European gallinule, GalUniila 
chloropus, the water-hen or moor-hen. [Local, 
Eng.] 
water-ram (wa'ter-ram), n. A machine for 
raising water: same as hydraulic ram (which 
see, under hydraulic). 
water-ranny (wa't6r-ran"i), n. It. The short- 
tailed field-mouse. Halliwell. — 2. Properly, 
the water-shrew. 
water-rat (wa'ter-rat), n. One of several dif- 
ferent rodents, of aquatic habits, belonging to 
the family Muridse. (a) In Europe, the water-vole, 
a comparatively large blackish species, Arvicola amphi- 
Water-rat {.-Irvjcoiii atnphibiusu 
bins, wliicli lives in the banks of streams or lakes. See 
vole*.^. (&) In America, the musquash or muskrat, Fiber 
zibethictis. See cut under inu»krat. (c) In Australia and 
Tasmania, a water-mouse ; any species of the genus Hy- 
dromys, as H. ctirysogaster or //. leucogaster: also called 
beaver-rat. See cut under beaver-rat. 
water-rate (wa'ter-rat), n. A rate or tax for 
the supply of water. Also water-rent. 
water-rattler (wa'ter-raf'ler), H. The diamond 
rattlesnake, Crotalusadamanteus, often found in 
moist places. Also water-rattle. [Local, U. S.] 
water-reed (wa'ter-red), n. A grass of the ge- 
nus Arundo. 
water-rent (wa'ter-reut), n. Same as wa ter- 
ra t<: 
water-ret (wa'ter-ret). r. t. Same as water^ot. 
water-retting (wa'ter-ret'ing), n. See ret- 
ting, 1. Kiinjc. Brit., IX. 294. 
water-rice (wa'tfer-ris), n. The Indian rice, Zi- 
;ania aipiatica. See rice, and cut under Zizania. 
water-robin (wa'ter-rob'in), H. An Asiatic fly- 
catcher, Xanthopygia fidiginona. See robiii^, 3, 
and cut under Xanthopygia. 
water-rocket (wa'ter-rok'et), n. 1. A plant 
of the genus S'asturtium ; water-cress. — 2. A 
kind of firework designed to be discharged in 
the water. 
water-shut 
water-room (wa'ter-rom), «. The space in a 
steam-boiler occupied by water, as distinct from 
the steam-room, or the space which contains 
steam. 
water-rose (wa'tfer-roz), «. The water-lily. 
water-rot (wa'ter-rot), V. t. To cause to rot 
by steeping in water, as in some of the me- 
chanical trades. Also water-ret. 
water-route (wa'ter-rot), «. A stream or other 
tract of water used as a route of travel. 
The competition of parallel railroad lines or water- 
routes. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 688. 
water-rugt (wa'ter-rug), n. [< water -t- rwffl, 
equiv. here to shock'^, shough.'\ A kind of dog. 
Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept 
All by the name of dogs. Stiak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 94. 
water-sail (wa'ter-sal), n. A small sail occa- 
sionally set under a lower studdingsail. 
water-salamander (wa'ter-saFa-man-dSr), ». 
A water-newt. 
water-sallow (wa't^r-sal'o), n. [< water + sal- 
low'^.'] Same as water-willow, 1. 
water-sapphire (wa'ter-saf'ir), «. A precious 
stone of an intense blue color and transparent, 
found in small rolled masses in Ceylon. It is a 
variety of iolite. 
waterscape (wa'ter-skap), )i. [< water -t- -scape, 
as in landscape.'] A water- or sea- view as distin- 
guished from a landscape ; a seascape. [Rare.] 
water-scorpion (wa't^r-sk6r"pi-gn), n. A large 
aquatic and carnivorous bug of the family Nepi- 
dse. See Nepa. 
water-screw (wa't6r-skr8), «. A water-ele- 
vator consisting of an application of the .Archi- 
medean screw. It has spiral vanes set on an inclined 
axis revidving within a cylindrical casing whose lower 
end is in the water. 
water-seal (wa'ter-sel), n. A body of water in- 
terposed as a bar to the passage or escape of 
gas. A common way of forming a water-seal is to insei-t 
the open mouth of a pipe or vessel designed to hold the 
gas below the surface of water in another vessel to a depth 
at which the hydraulic pressure opposing the escape of the 
gas is equal to or greater than the pneumatic pressure of 
the gas. Another method is to form a bend downward in a 
pipe, and fill the bent part with water. Compare (rapl, 4. 
water-sengreen (wa'ter-sen''gren), n. See sen- 
green. 
water-serpent (wa'ter-s^r'pent), ». Same as 
sea-serpent, 2. 
watershed (wa't6r-shed), n. [< water + shed^.] 
The edge of a river-basin (see river) ; the line 
separating the waters flowing into two different 
rivers or river-basins. Thus, the crest of the Sierra 
Nevada of California forms the watershed between the 
rivers flowing into the Pacific and those which lose them- 
selves in the Great Basin. Sometimes called the water- 
parting, and in the United States more frequently and 
popularly the divide, l^hus, the "Continental Divide" is 
the line which marks the separation of the waters flow- 
ing into the Pacific from those finding their way to the 
Gulf of Mexico. 
Midnight ! the outpost of advancing day I . . . 
The icatershed of Time, from which the streams 
Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way ! 
Longfellow, The Two Rivers, L 
The summit of the pass is called the divide or miter- 
stied. In this last word the "shed" has not the present 
meaning, but an obsidescent one of "part" or "divide" 
(Ger. ScheidenX Skeat says: "The old sense 'to part' 
is nearly obsolete, except in water-shed, the ridge which 
parts river-systems." . . . The waf«r-«A«<f of jmy river ba- 
sin limits its "area of catchment," as the hydraulic engi- 
neers call it. J. D. Whitney, Names and Places, p. 141. 
water-sheept (wa'ter-shep), «. The roach, a 
fish: so called in antithesis to water-fox (the 
carp). See cut under rofloA. I.Walton. 
water-shell (wa'ter-shel), «. In ordnance, a 
shell, invented by M. Abel, consisting of an 
ordinary shell with a centrally placed cylinder 
of guncotton, having the space between this 
cylinder and the walls of the shell filled with 
water. The shell is hermetically sealed to re- 
tain the water. 
water-shield (wa'ter-sheld), H. A plant of 
either of the genera Caboniba and Brasenia, 
which form the suborder Cabonibese, of the Nym- 
phcaceie: so called as consisting of aquatics 
with peltate leaves. Brasenia peltata, with floating 
oval leaves 1 to 4 inches across and small dull-purple flow- 
ers, is found in North America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
Also water-buckler. 
water-shoot (wa'ter-shot), H. [< water + shoot, 
prob. confused also with chute.] 1. A pipe or 
trough for discharging water from a building. 
— 2t. A shoot from the root of a tree. 
water-shrew (wa'ter-shro), n. An oar-footed 
aquatic shrew. In Europe tlie best-known species is 
Crossopus fodiens. The corresponding American species 
is Keosorex palvstris. See second cut under shmc. 
water-shutt (wa'ter-shut), n. That which stops 
the passage of water. 
