Wa"ter-col`or*ist, n. One who paints in water colors.
Wa"ter course` (?). 1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv.
4.
2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of
water, especially in draining lands.
3. (Law) A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement
one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course.
A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.
Wa"ter craft` (?). Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and
boats, collectively.
Wa"ter crake` (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake
(Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake. (c) The swamp hen, or crake,
of Australia.
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Wa"ter crane` (?). A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an
elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
Wa"ter cress` (?). (Bot.) A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium
officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The
leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
Wa"ter crow` (?). [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.] (Zoöl.)
(a) The dipper. (b) The European coot.
Wa"ter crow"foot` (?). (Bot.) An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus
aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus),
having deep yellow flowers.
Wa"ter cure` (?). 1. (Med.) Hydropathy.