Water Gang :: Water gang () A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes..

Water Gas :: Water gas () See under Gas.

Water Gate :: Water gate () A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated..

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () A wall or bank to hold water back.

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..

Water Gavel :: Water gavel () A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water..

Waygate :: Waygate (n.) The tailrace of a mill.

Whiggamore :: Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

Whiggarchy :: Whiggarchy (n.) Government by Whigs.

Widegap :: Widegap (n.) The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut..

Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (a.) Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (n.) Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

Xenogamy :: Xenogamy (n.) Cross fertilization.

Xylophaga :: Xylophaga (n.) A genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood. They are allied to Pholas.

Xylophagan :: Xylophagan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in wood.

Xylophagan :: Xylophagan (n.) Any species of Xylophaga.

Xylophagan :: Xylophagan (n.) Any one of the Xylophagides.

Yaffingale :: Yaffingale (n.) The yaffle.

Yoga :: Yoga (n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties..

Yuga :: Yuga (n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world..

Ziega :: Ziega (n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation..

Zingari :: Zingari (pl. ) of Zingar.

Zingaro :: Zingaro (n.) A gypsy.

Zoogamous :: Zoogamous (a.) Of or pertaining zoogamy.

Zoogamy :: Zoogamy (n.) The sexual reproduction of animals.

Zoophaga :: Zoophaga (n. pl.) An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

Zoophagan :: Zoophagan (n.) A animal that feeds on animal food.

Zygantra :: Zygantra (pl. ) of Zygantru.

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