Definition of "water-god" [water-god]

• In mythology, a deity that presides over the waters, or over some particular body, stream, or fountain of water. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Anon, when I gave birth to thee, because I felt shame of my sisters and my maiden years, I sent thee to the swirling stream of thy sire, the water-god; and Strymon did not entrust thy nurture to mortal hands, but to the fountain nymphs."
• "Kaluna came up just after we had crossed, undressed, made his clothes into a bundle, and got over amphibiously, leaping, swimming, and diving, looking like a water-god, with the horse and mule after him."
• "I began to be afraid that the miller must have failed in his stratagem against the water-god, and that, as I had read in"