WATER, among jewellers, is properly the colour or lustre of diamonds and pearls. The term, though less properly, is sometimes used for the hue or colour of other stones. WATER BEETLE, in zoology. See DYTISCUS. WATER BORNE, in the sea-language. A ship is said to be water-borne, when she is where there is no more water than will barely bear her from the ground; or when lying even with the ground, she first begins to float or swim. WATER COLOURS, in painting, are such colours as are only diluted and mixed up with gum-water, in contradistinction to oil-colours. WATER GANG, a channel cut to drain a place by carrying off a stream of water. WATER-LINE of a Ship, a line which distinguishes that part of her under water from that above, when she is duly laden. WATER-MEN, are such as row in boats, or ply on the river Thames, in the government of whom the lord-mayor of London, and court of aldermen there, had always great power. They still have the appointing of their fares, the taking more than which makes them liable to a fine of 40s. and half a year's imprisonment. WATER-SHOOT, a young sprig which springs out of the root or stock of a tree. WATER-SHOT in the sea-language, a sort of riding at anchor, when a ship is moored neither cross the tide, nor right up and down, but quartering betwixt both. WATER-TABLE, in architecture, a sort of ledge left in stone Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Fig. 13. Fig. 14. Fig. 15. Fig. 16.