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 I.  noun 
 Usage: often attributive 
 Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave Date: before 12th century 
 
 1. the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter and that when pure is an odorless, tasteless, very slightly compressible liquid oxide of hydrogen H 2 O which appears bluish in thick layers, freezes at 0° C and boils at 100° C, has a maximum density at 4° C and a high specific heat, is feebly ionized to hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and is a poor conductor of electricity and a good solvent, a natural mineral water, a particular quantity or body of water: as, a. the water occupying or flowing in a particular bed,  lake  ,  pond  , a quantity or depth of water adequate for some purpose (as navigation), c. plural a band of seawater abutting on the land of a particular sovereignty and under the control of that sovereignty, the sea of a particular part of the earth,  water supply  , travel or transportation on water , the level of water at a particular state of the tide ;  tide  , liquid containing or resembling water: as, a. a pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparation made with water, a watery solution of a gaseous or readily volatile substance, a distilled fluid (as an essence), a watery fluid (as tears, urine, or sap) formed or circulating in a living body,  amniotic fluid  , 
 
 6. the degree of clarity and luster of a precious stone, degree of excellence ,  watercolor  , 
 
 8. stock not representing assets of the issuing company and not backed by earning power, fictitious or exaggerated asset entries that give a stock an unrealistic book value, 
 
 II.  verb Date: before 12th century transitive  verb to moisten, sprinkle, or soak with water , to supply with water for drink , to supply water to , to treat with or…

 water bag 
  noun 
 Date: 1638
 a bag for holding water,  bag of waters  

 water balance 
  noun 
 Date: 1911
 the ratio between the water assimilated into the body and that lost from the body

 water ballet 
  noun 
 Date: 1926
 a synchronized sequence of movements performed by a group of swimmers

 water bear 
  noun 
 Date: 1852
  tardigrade  

 water bearer 
  noun 
 Date: 1594
  Aquarius  1,  Aquarius  2a

 water bed 
  noun 
 Date: 1844
 a bed whose mattress is a watertight bag filled with water

 water beetle 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1668
 any of numerous oval flattened aquatic beetles (as a diving beetle or whirligig beetle) that swim by means of their fringed hind legs which act together as oars

 water biscuit 
  noun 
 Date: 1786
 a cracker of flour and water and sometimes fat

 water blister 
  noun 
 Date: 1836
 a blister with a clear watery content

 water bloom 
  noun 
 Date: 1903
  bloom  1d

 water boatman 
  noun 
 Date: 1815
  backswimmer  , any of various oval flattened aquatic bugs (family Corixidae) of fresh or brackish water with fringed hind legs modified into paddles

 water boy 
  noun 
 Date: 1859
 one who keeps a group (as of football players) supplied with drinking water

 water buffalo 
  noun 
 Date: 1847
 an often domesticated Asian buffalo ( Bubalus bubalis syn.  B. arnee )

 water bug 
  noun 
 Date: 1750
 any of various small arthropods and especially insects that frequent damp or wet places: as,  German cockroach  ,  water boatman  , any of various large aquatic bugs (family Belostomatidae) with the hind legs flattened and used for swimming

 water cannon 
  noun 
 Date: 1964
 a large truck-mounted nozzle for directing a high-pressure stream of water (as at a crowd of rioters or demonstrators)

 water chestnut 
  noun 
 Date: 1854
 any of a genus ( Trapa, especially  T. natans of the family Trapaceae, the water-chestnut family) of Old World aquatic herbs sometimes grown as ornamentals, a whitish crunchy vegetable used especially in Chinese cooking that is the peeled and often sliced tuber of a sedge ( Eleocharis dulcis syn.  E. tuberosa ) native to Asia but widely cultivated elsewhere

 water clock 
  noun 
 Date: 1601
 an instrument designed to measure time by the fall or flow of a quantity of water

 water closet 
  noun 
 Date: 1755
 a compartment or room with a toilet, a toilet bowl and its accessories

 water cycle 
  noun 
 Date: 1928
  hydrologic cycle  

 water dog 
  noun 
 Date: 1674
 a person (as a skilled sailor) who is quite at ease in or on water, any of several large American salamanders

 water down 
 transitive  verb 
 Date: 1850
 to reduce or temper the force or effectiveness of , watered-down  adjective 

 water flea 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1585
 any of various small active dark or brightly colored aquatic crustaceans (as a daphnia or cyclops)

 water gap 
  noun 
 Date: 1756
 a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream runs

 water garden 
  noun 
 Date: 1862
 a garden in which aquatic plants predominate, a garden built about a stream or pool as a central feature

 water gas 
  noun 
 Date: 1851
 a poisonous flammable gaseous mixture that consists chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen with small amounts of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, is usually made by blowing air and then steam over red-hot coke or coal, and is used as a fuel or after carbureting as an illuminant

 water gate 
  noun 
 Date: 13th century
 a gate (as of a building) giving access to a body of water,  floodgate  

 water gauge 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1706
 an instrument to measure or find the depth or quantity of water or to indicate the height of its surface especially in a steam boiler

 water glass 
  noun 
 Date: 1612
 a glass vessel (as a drinking glass) for holding water, an instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom used for examining objects in or under water, a substance that consists usually of the silicate of sodium, is found in commerce as a glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved in water as a viscous syrupy liquid, and is used especially as a cement, a protective coating, and as a fireproofing agent

 water gun 
  noun 
 Date: 1951
  water pistol  

 water hammer 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1890
 a concussion or sound of concussion of moving water against the sides of a containing pipe or vessel (as a steam pipe)