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A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

See Anacharis.

Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.

Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

Barbel of a fish.

The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.

The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

To bind with twigs.