Defn: A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia,
India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black
and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head.
Called also kora.
WATER COLOR
Wa"ter col`or. (Paint.)
1. A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; — so called in distinction from oil color.
Note: It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.
2. A picture painted with such colors.
WATER-COLORIST
Wa"ter-col`or*ist, n.
Defn: One who paints in water colors.
WATER COURSE
Wa"ter course`.
1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4.
2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.