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water noun.
= water-buck below; water-bomber Canad. an aircraft used for extinguishing forest fires by dropping water; water-borne adjective (a) floating on the water; (b) (of goods etc.) conveyed by ship or boat; (c) (of disease) communicated or propagated by contaminated drinking-water; water bottle (a) a vessel of skin, glass, metal, etc., for holding or carrying drinking-water; (b) = hot-water bottle s.v. HOT adjective; water bouget Heraldry = BOUGET; water-bough (obsolete exc. dial.) a small bough on a tree trunk overshadowed by a larger bough; water-bound adjective (a) cut off by floods; (b) (of macadam roads) solidified by rolling and watering; water-boy (chiefly N. Amer.) a boy or man who brings drinking water to people engaged in strenuous Exercise; waterbrash Medicine a sudden filling of the mouth with dilute saliva or regurgitated fluid, accompanying dyspepsia or nausea; water break (a piece of) broken water; water-breather any animal capable of breathing in water by means of gills etc.; water-breathing adjective designating an animal which is a water-breather; water-buck a large antelope, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, which has a coat of various shades of brown or grey and is found in watered districts of the African savannah (cf. SING-SING); water budget (a) Heraldry = BOUGET; (b) Hydrology etc. = water balance (c) above; water-buffalo a large Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus arnee, which occurs widely as a domesticated beast of burden, but whose ancestral wild form in the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia is now endangered; water bug (a) any of numerous heteropteran bugs that live in water; (b) US the common cockroach, Blatta orientalis; water-bull a legendary semi-aquatic animal resembling a bull; water-bus a motor-boat or steamer carrying paying passengers as part of a scheduled service; water-butt a large open barrel for catching rainwater; water caltrop(s): see CALTROP 1; water cannon a device for discharging water at high pressure, esp. to disperse crowds; Water-carrier = water-bearer (b) above; water-cart a cart carrying water; esp. (now Hist.) a vehicle of this kind used for watering the streets; water-caster (obsolete exc. Hist.) a person who professes to diagnose disease by examining a patient's urine; water chestnut (a) any of several aquatic plants constituting the genus Trapa (family Trapaceae), esp. T. natans, which have horned edible nuts; (b) (in full Chinese water chestnut) the edible starchy tuber of a spike-rush, Eleocharis dulcis, used in Chinese cookery; water chickweed a straggling succulent white-flowered plant of riversides etc., Myosoton aquaticum, of the pink family, resembling a large chickweed; water-chute an artificial cascade of water to be descended as an amusement; water clerk a clerk from a shipowner's or agent's office, who boards an arriving ship; water-clock a water-driven instrument for measuring time; esp. = CLEPSYDRA; water-closet (a small room containing) a large bowl for urinating and defecating, the excreta being flushed away by a stream of water (cf. earth closet s.v. EARTH noun1); water company a commercial association for supplying water to the inhabitants of a town or district; water-cool verb trans. cool (an engine etc.) by circulating water (chiefly as water-cooled ppl adjective); water-cooler a vessel in which water is kept cool; spec. (N. Amer.) a tank of cooled drinking water in a place of work; water-cow (a) = water-buffalo above; (b) a legendary semi-aquatic animal resembling a cow; water cracker US = water biscuit above; watercraft (a) skill in matters pertaining to activities on water; (b) a vessel that plies on the water, such vessels collectively; personal watercraft (chiefly US), a jet-ski; water crane: see CRANE noun1 3; water-cricket (a) the larva of a stonefly; (b) any of several water bugs of the genus Velia that run on the surface Film; water-crow any of various dark-coloured waterbirds; esp. the dipper Cinclus cinclus; water-crowfoot any of a group of buttercups (genus Ranunculus) with white flowers and finely dissected submerged leaves, occurring in ponds and streams; water cure (a) a course of medical treatment by hydrotherapy; (b) a form of torture in which a person is forced to drink large quantities of water; water cushion a depth of water that acts to lessen the impact or force of something; water cycle the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration; water deer a small Chinese deer, Hydropotes inermis, that has been introduced into England; water diviner = water-finder below; water-drinker a person who Drinks water; esp. a total abstainer; water-drinking adjective drinking water (and abstaining from alcohol); water drive Oil Industry the use of water to force oil out of a reservoir rock; water-dropwort: see DROPWORT 2; water drum a drum containing water, or placed in water, which is played as a musical instrument; water-dust water in the form of fine spray; water elder the guelder rose, Viburnum opulus; water elm the planer-tree, Planera aquatica; water engine (a) a fire engine; (b) an engine for pumping water; water fern any of several small floating ferns; esp. Azolla filiculoides, a mosslike freq. reddish plant of tropical and subtropical America (naturalized in Great Britain); water figwort a European figwort, Scrophularia auriculata, with obtuse bluntly toothed leaves, found by streams and ponds; water finder a person who dowses for water; water-finding dowsing for water; water flag: see FLAG noun1 1; water-flea any of various minute freshwater cladoceran crustaceans, which swim by flicking their branched antennae; water-flood (a) a body or mass of water in flood; (b) Oil Industry water-flooding; an instance of this; water-flooding Oil Industry the injection of water into a reservoir rock in order to force oil into neighbouring production wells; water-fly any fly or similar insect that frequents water or waterside habitats; waterfront (orig. US) the part of a town adjoining a harbour, river, lake, etc.; watergall (a) a boggy part of a field; (b) (now dial.) a secondary or imperfectly formed rainbow; watergang a watercourse, esp. an artificial one; water Garden a Garden with pools or a stream, for growing aquatic plants; water gas (a) a gas made by blowing steam over incandescent coke and consisting mainly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen; (b) water in the form of vapour; water gauge (a) a transparent tube etc. indicating the level of water in a reservoir, steam boiler, etc.; (b) pressure expressed in terms of a head of water; water GERMANDER; water-gilder a person who practises water-gilding; water-gilding the former process of gilding metal surfaces by immersion in liquid gold amalgam; water-gilt, water-gold liquid gold amalgam used in water-gilding; gold that has been applied by this means; water-gruel noun & adjective (a) noun thin gruel made with water rather than milk; formerly fig., as a type of something insipid; (b) adjective insipid, namby-pamby, characterless; water-guard a body of customs officers employed to watch ships in order to prevent smuggling; water gum any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, esp. Tristaniopsis laurina, which grows near streams; water gun (chiefly N. Amer.) a water pistol; water-head (a) (the land adjoining) the head or source of a stream; (b) = HEAD noun 19; water hemlock (a) the European cowbane, Cicuta virosa; (b) = water-dropwort s.v. DROPWORT 2; waterhen any of various aquatic rails, such as the moorhen and Other birds of the genus Gallinula; water-house Hist. a building in which water was raised from a river or well into a reservoir to be conveyed by pipes for domestic use; water HYACINTH; water-ice (a) a confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen; a sorbet; (b) ice formed by the direct freezing of water; (c) Astronomy frozen water or water vapour; water injection (a) Oil Industry the forcing of water into a reservoir formation, esp. as a technique of secondary recovery; (b) Aeronautics the injection of water into the cylinders of a piston engine or the air intake of a jet engine, to provide cooling and increase engine Efficiency; water-insoluble adjective insoluble in water; water-intoxicated adjective (Medicine) suffering from water intoxication; water intoxication Medicine a condition resulting from the intake of too much water, leading progressively to drowsiness, confusion, convulsions, coma, and death; water-jacket a casing containing water surrounding a thing, to prevent undue heating or chilling; water-jacketed adjective surrounded by a water-jacket; water jump a water-filled ditch or hollow to be jumped by horses and riders, or by runners in an obstacle race; water-kelpie: see KELPIE noun1; water-knot a kind of knot used in joining together the sections of a fishing-line; water-laid, water-lain adjectives (Geology) designating strata deposited by water; water-lane (a) dial. a green lane with a stream running along it; (b) a narrow passage of open water, as between masses of reeds or lines of shipping; water-leaf (a) any of several N. American woodland plants constituting the genus Hydrophyllum (family Hydrophyllaceae), with bell-shaped flowers and lobed or pinnate leaves looking as if stained with water; (b) Architecture a stylized representation of the leaf of an aquatic plant, used as an ornament in sculptured capitals; (c) paper at an early stage of manufacture; water leech = LEECH noun2 1; water lemon the edible fruit of a species of passion-flower, Passiflora laurifolia; water lentils: see LENTIL 1b; water lettuce a tropical aquatic plant of the arum family, Pistia stratiotes, which forms a floating rosette of leaves; water lily any aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, with broad flat floating leaves and large solitary cup-shaped flowers; esp. the white-flowered Nymphaea alba (more fully white water lily), of Europe, and the yellow-flowered Nuphar lutea (more fully yellow water lily), of Eurasia; water lizard a newt or Other lizard-like animal inhabiting water; water-lungs Zoology = respiratory tree s.v. TREE noun 7(c); water main the main pipe in the water-supply system of a house etc.; water mass Oceanography a large body of seawater that is distinguishable by its characteristic temperature and salinity range; water-meadow a meadow periodically flooded by a stream; water-measure Hist. a unit or system of measurement for coal, salt, fruit, etc., sold from vessels in port or on a river; water measurer any of several long thin water bugs of the genus Hydrometra and family Hydrometridae, which walk slowly on the surface Film; water meter a device for measuring and recording the amount of water supplied to or used by a household; water milfoil: see MILFOIL 2; water-mill (a) a mill with machinery driven by a water-wheel; (b) a water-wheel; water-miller the owner or manager of a water-mill; water-mite any of numerous aquatic mites of the suborder Protostigmata, most of which are parasitic as larvae and predatory as adults; water moccasin: see MOCCASIN 2; water-mole Austral. a platypus; water mongoose a dark brown African mongoose, Atilax paludinosus, found in marshes and near rivers; water monitor any semi-aquatic monitor lizard; esp. the Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus; water-mouse orig., the water-vole, Arvicola terrestris; now, any of several mice that frequent water, esp. Central American mice of the genus Rheomys; water-mouth Scot. the mouth of a river; water-net = HYDRODICTYON; water-nymph Mythology a nymph living in or under water; a naiad; water oak any of several N. American oaks which grow near water, esp. Quercus nigra of the southern US; water opossum = YAPOK; water-organ = HYDRAULUS; water ouzel the dipper Cinclus cinclus; water-ox = water-buffalo above; water-parsnip any of several aquatic umbelliferous plants with pinnate leaves, esp. Sium latifolium (more fully greater water-parsnip) and Berula erecta (more fully lesser water-parsnip); water-parting = WATERSHED 1; water-pepper a Eurasian knotweed of damp ground, Persicaria hydropiper, the leaves of which have a peppery taste; water-pheasant any of various long-tailed waterbirds; esp. the pheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, of India and SE Asia; water pimpernel: see PIMPERNEL 2b; water pipe (a) a pipe for conveying water; (b) a hookah; water pipit a dark-coloured European pipit, Anthus spinoletta, that frequents waterside habitats; water-pistol a toy pistol shooting a jet of water; water plane (a) a canal constructed on a level, without locks; (b) a plane passing through a floating body, as a ship etc., on a level with the water-line; (c) a seaplane; water plantain a Eurasian aquatic plant, Alisma plantago-aquatica (family Alismataceae), with ovate leaves resembling those of a plantain (genus Plantago) and with panicles of lilac flowers; also (with specifying word), any of several Other plants of the genus Alisma or formerly included in it; water polo a game played by teams of swimmers, using a ball like a Football; water-pore Zoology a minute ciliated opening through the oral wall of the disc of a crinoid; water-pot (a) a vessel for holding water; (b) Astronomy the part of the constellation Aquarius represented as a vase or urn; (c) a watering-can; water-power (a) mechanical force derived from the weight or motion of water; (b) a fall or flow of water which can be so utilized; water pressure hydraulic pressure; water-pressure adjective designating an engine etc. operating by means of hydraulic pressure; water-privilege US the right to use water, esp. in order to turn machinery; a stream or body of water able to be used for this purpose; water pump a pump for raising water; water pumper a person using a water pump; water PURPIE; water purslane (a) a low-growing plant of damp and wet habitats, Lythrum portula, of the purple loosestrife family; (b) US an aquatic plant, Ludwigia palustris, of the willowherb family; waterquake a seismic disturbance in the sea; water rail a Eurasian rail, Rallus aquaticus, which frequents dense vegetation near water; water-rate, water-rent a charge levied on a householder for the supply of water; water-repellent adjective not easily penetrated by water; water-resistant adjective (of a fabric etc.) able to resist but not entirely prevent the penetration of water (cf. WATERPROOF adjective); water-ret verb trans. ret (flax or hemp) by steeping in water (opp. dew-ret); water ring Zoology = ring-canal s.v. RING noun1; water-rot verb trans. (US) = water-ret above; water-rug rare (Shakes.) a kind of shaggy water-dog; water-sail (now Hist.) in square-rigged ships, a small sail beneath a lower studding-sail, spread in calm weather; water sapphire (a) a colourless or pale variety of sapphire; (b) an intense blue variety of cordierite occurring chiefly in Ceylon (also called saphir d'eau); waterscape (a picture of) a view or piece of scenery consisting of water; water-scorpion any of several flattened water bugs of the family Nepidae, which have raptorial front legs and breathe through a bristle-like tubular tail; esp. Nepa cinerea of Europe; water-screw = ARCHIMEDEAN screw; water-serpent (a) = water snake below; (b) = sea-serpent (a) s.v. SEA; water-shield a purple-flowered N. American aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi (family Cabombaceae), having leaves like those of a water lily; water shrew any of various semi-aquatic or waterside shrews, esp. Eurasian shrews of the genus Neomys and N. American shrews of the genus Sorex; water silk (a garment of) watered silk (see WATERED ppl adjective 4a); water skater = pond-skater s.v. POND noun; watersmeet a meeting-point of two streams; water snake (a) any of various snakes that frequent fresh water, esp. harmless colubrid snakes of the genus Natrix and Other genera; (b) = sea-snake (a) s.v. SEA; (c) (Water Snake) the constellation Hydrus; (d) = WART snake; water-softener an apparatus or chemical for making hard water soft; water soldier: see SOLDIER noun 4; water-soluble adjective soluble in water; water spaniel (an animal of) any variety of spaniel used for retrieving waterfowl; water spider any of several, usu. large, semi-aquatic spiders; esp. (a) the spider Argyroneta aquatica, which dives under water, where it constructs a web containing air to act as a diving-bell; (b) a raft spider; water-spirit a supernatural being believed to inhabit water; water-splash a shallow stream or ford crossing a road; water Sports (a) Sports that are carried out on water, such as waterskiing and windsurfing; (b) slang sexual activity involving urination; water-spot verb intrans. (of fabric) show permanently any mark made on it by a drop of water; water starwort: see STARWORT 1(c); water stick insect any of several very long and narrow water bugs of the genus Ranatra, allied to the water-scorpions; water stoma Botany a hydathode; water-stop (a) a place where a traveller or train stops for water; (b) a sealant to prevent water from leaking through joints; water-stream (now rare) a stream or current of water; a river, a brook; water strider = pond-skater s.v. POND noun; water-swallow (a) a wagtail; (b) a sand martin; (c) a swallow-hole; water taxi a small boat picking up casual passengers on a river, canal, etc.; water-thief poet. a pirate; waterthrush either of two N. American birds of the genus Seiurus (family Parulidae), resembling small thrushes and found near woodland streams and swamps; water thyme Canadian waterweed (see waterweed below); water tortoise any of various African or S. American side-necked turtles of the family Pelomedusidae; water-torture any of several forms of torture involving water, esp. one in which the victim is placed under an incessant drip of water; water-tower a tower with an elevated tank to give pressure for distributing water; water tree any of several trees and shrubs yielding abundant drinkable sap, esp. Tetracera potatoria (family Dilleniaceae) of tropical Africa; water tube each of the tubes carrying water through a water-tube boiler; water-tube adjective designating a form of boiler in which the water circulates through tubes exposed to the source of heat; water tunnel a device resembling a wind tunnel, but using a flow of water instead of air to test models; water vapour water as a gas evaporated below the boiling point; water-vascular adjective (Zoology) pertaining to or consisting of water vessels; water-vascular system, a network of water vessels in the body of an echinoderm, the tube-feet being operated by the pressure within the vessels; water vessel Zoology any of a system of vessels in some invertebrates in which water circulates; water vine any of several plants which yield an abundant watery sap, esp. the W. Indian Doliocarpus calinea (family Dilleniaceae); water violet an aquatic plant of the primrose family, Hottonia palustris, with lilac flowers and finely pinnate submerged leaves; water-vole (a) either of two large semi-aquatic Eurasian voles of the genus Arvicola, which burrow into the banks of rivers and streams; esp. the common A. terrestris; (b) N. Amer. a similar but smaller vole, Microtus richardsoni; water-wagon (orig. US) = water-cart above; chiefly in on the water-wagon (slang), abstaining from alcoholic drink, teetotal; water-wagtail (a) = WAGTAIL 1; (b) US = waterthrush above; water-wave noun & verb (a) noun a wave of water; a seismic wave in the sea; a scalloped wave in the hair set on the forehead with water; (b) verb trans. set (hair) in water-waves; water-waved adjective having a wavelike pattern; (of hair) set in water-waves; water-waving (a) a wavy or watered appearance given to silk etc. by pressing two pieces together; (b) the setting of hair in water-waves; waterweed (a) any aquatic plant with inconspicuous flowers; (b) spec. any of several freq. invasive N. American or S. American plants of the genus Elodea, of the frogbit family; esp. (more fully Canadian waterweed) E. canadensis, widely naturalized in Europe; water-wheel (a) a wheel driven by water and used to power machinery, esp. that of a mill or pump; (b) a wheel for raising water, esp. for irrigation, by means of buckets fitted on its circumference; water whorl-grass: see WHORL noun; water-willow any of various plants with narrow leaves resembling those of a willow, e.g. the N. American Justicia americana, of the acanthus family; water-wings inflatable floats fixed to the upper arms of a person learning to swim to give increased buoyancy; water-witch (a) a witch inhabiting water; (b) US any of various waterbirds noted for their diving, esp. a grebe; (c) US a water-finder; water-witching US dowsing; water-wolf colloq. the otter; water-worm any aquatic annelid; waterwort any of several aquatic plants of the genus Elatine (family Elatinaceae), with inconspicuous pinkish flowers in the axils of the leaves; water yarrow arch. any of several aquatic plants with finely divided leaves, esp. water violet.Comb.: water-ash an ash tree, Fraxinus caroliniana, of swamps in the southern US; water authority a body administering a system of water supply; water AVENS; water-bag a bag of skin, leather, or canvas for carrying water, esp. one used in Eastern countries for transporting and distributing water, or in Australia by travellers in dry areas; a hundred in the water-bag (Austral. slang), very hot; water-bailie Scot. = water bailiff below; water bailiff (a) Hist. a custom-house officer at a port; (b) an official responsible for the enforcement of fishing laws; esp. a river-policeman employed to prevent poaching; water balance (a) any of various counterbalancing devices which use the weight of water to raise loads; (b) Physiology equilibrium between water intake and water loss; (c) Hydrology etc. an assessment of the water resources or turnover of a lake, catchment area, etc. after all input and output has been taken into account; water-ballast Nautical (tanks etc. filled with) water placed in a vessel to serve as ballast, esp. after the cargo is unloaded; water barometer an early form of barometer in which the pressure of the atmosphere is measured by the height of a column of water; water-based adjective having water as the main ingredient; water bat any of various bats that habitually fly over water; esp. Daubenton's bat; water-bath Chemistry a vessel containing water heated to a given temperature, used for heating preparations placed in smaller vessels; water bear (a) = TARDIGRADE noun 2; (b) Canad. a polar bear; water-bearer (a) a person employed to carry water from a spring etc. for domestic use, esp. in an Eastern country; (b) (Water-bearer) the constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius; water-bed a bed with a flexible water-filled mattress in a rigid frame, designed to adapt itself to the posture of the sleeper; water beech a N. American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana; water beetle any of numerous beetles that live in water, esp. carnivorous beetles of the family Dytiscidae, and scavenging beetles of the family Hydrophilidae; water betony = water figwort below; waterbird any bird which frequents water; esp. one which wades or swims; water birth a birth in which the mother spends the final stages of labour in a birthing pool, with delivery taking place either in or out of the water; water biscuit a thin crisp biscuit made from flour and water; water-blinks: see BLINK noun 4; water blister a blister containing a colourless serous fluid rather than blood or pus; water-bloom: see BLOOM noun1 3c; water-boa the anaconda Eunectes murinus
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East Hampshire (tourism)

East Hampshire is a city in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. with a population of 108,209 inhabitants at the latest census. This city's longitude and latitude are -0.98 and 51.15 respectively.

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