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Basin :: Basin (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake..

Capybara :: Capybara (n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog..

Safranin :: Safranin (n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin..

Hydra :: Hydra (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster..

Brine :: Brine (n.) The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake..

Lake :: Lake (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc..

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena..

Lavaret :: Lavaret (n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland..

Besnow :: Besnow (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes..

Estuary :: Estuary (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith..

Margin :: Margin (n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake..

Branchiopoda :: Branchiopoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake..

Chippeways :: Chippeways (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

Goggle-eye :: Goggle-eye (n.) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes..

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..

Amia :: Amia (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin..

Slocken :: Slocken (v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.

Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

Snowflake :: Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow..

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