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watchman, n. sentinel, guard, Argus, Cerberus. See watch.
watch-pocket, n. fob.
watch-tower, n. observatory.
watchword, n. countersign, pa.s.sword, s.h.i.+bboleth, parole.
water, v. irrigate.
Water, n. a.s.sociated Words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics, current, undertow.
water, n. lymph; serum.
water-bearer, n. Aquarius.
water bottle. carafe.
water brash. water-qualm, pyrosis.
water-clock, n. clepsydra; hydroscope.
water-closet, n. privy.
water color. aquarelle.
water-course, n. channel, ditch, ca.n.a.l, moat, sewer, drain, aqueduct, gutter, trench, wady.
water-cure, n. hydropathy.
water-doctor, n. hydropathist.
waterfall, n. cascade, cataract, fall, linn.
wateriness, n. aquosity.
waterless, a. anhydrous.
water-lily, n. Nymphae.
waterman, n. ferryman, boatman.
water-nymph, n. Naiad, hydriad.
water on the brain. hydrocephalus.
water on the chest. hydrothorax.
water plant. aquatic, hydrophyte. a.s.sociated Word: hydrophytology.
water-pox, n. varicella, swine-pox.
water-qualm, n. water brash, pyrosis.
watershed, n. divide.
water sports. aquatics.
water wheel. tympanum, turbine.
watery, a. aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.
watery discharge. hydrorrhea.
wattle, n. gill, caruncle.
wave, n. undulation, surge, eagre, bore, swell, billow, breaker; ripple; whitecap; signal, flourish; swelling, excitement, tide.
a.s.sociated Words: rote, trough, rut, crest.
wave, v. undulate, float, flutter; flourish, brandish; beckon, signal.
waver, v. vacillate, fluctuate, veer, oscillate, hesitate.
wavering, a. vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating, unstable, irresolute, uncertain.
wavering, n. vacillation, fluctuation, indecision, irresolution, oscillation, hesitancy.
wavy, a. undulatory, undulating, undulated.
wax, n. beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite, mineral wax. a.s.sociated words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.
wax, v. cere; increase, grow, develop, become larger.
waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, pliable, fictile, impressible, plastic.
way, n. manner, method, mode, fas.h.i.+on, style, guise, custom, habitude, wont, practice; distance, interval, s.p.a.ce; pa.s.sage, transit, progression, advance; means, device, expedient, contrivance; direction; road, track, path, thoroughfare.
wayfarer, n. traveler, pilgrim, pa.s.senger, wanderer.
wayfaring, a. traveling, pa.s.sing.
way in. entrance.
waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. disobedient, perverse, froward, willful, intractable, headstrong.
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
