Vocabulary : Waterweed to Wattle

Waterweed : See Anacharis.
Water-white : A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
Waterwork : 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.
Waterworn : Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
Waterwort : 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.

Watery : 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.
Watt : 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.
Watteau : Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; -- said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.
Watteau back : The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.
Wattle : Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. ;; In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; -- so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species. ;; 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. ;; To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches. ;; To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.