The Latin word for water, used in many descriptive names in Pharmacy and Chemistry, with sense of: Liquid, solution. See esp. AQUA FORTIS, MIRABILIS, REGIA, VITÆ.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxxxvi. (1495), 692. Of grene rose aqua rosacea is made by sethyng.
