Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: WA-TER-SAIL – WAT'TLE
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WA-TER-SAIL, n. [water and sail.]
A small sail used under a studding sail or driver boom. – Mar. Dict.
WA-TER-SAP-PHIRE, n. [water and sapphire.]
A kind of blue precious stone.
WA'TER-SHED, n.
A range of high land, that casts the water in different directions. – Robinson.
WA-TER-SHOOT, n. [water and shoot.]
A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Local.]
WA-TER-SNAKE, n. [water and snake.]
A snake that frequents the water.
WA-TER-SOAK, v.t. [water and soak.]
To soak or fill the interstices with water.
WA-TER-SOAK-ED, pp.
Soaked or having its interstices titled with water; as, water-soaked wood; a water-soaked hat.
WA-TER-SOLD-IER, n.
A plant of the genus Stratiotes. – Cyc.
WA-TER-SPAN-IEL, n. [water and spaniel.]
A dog so called. – Sidney.
WA-TER-SPOUT, n. [water and spout.]
At sea, a vertical column of water, raised from the surface of the sea and driven furiously by the wind. – Mar. Dict.
WA-TER-TA-BLE, n. [water and table.]
In architecture, a ledge in the wall of a building, about eighteen or twenty inches from the ground.
WA-TER-TATH, n.
In England, a species of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. – Cyc.
An instrument for ascertaining the precise degree of cold at which water ceases to be condensed. – Cyc.
WA-TER-TIGHT, a. [water and tight.]
So tight as to retain or not to admit water. – Whewell.
WA-TER-TRE'FOIL, n.
A plant, Menyanthes trifoliata.
WA-TER-VI'O-LET, n. [water and violet.]
A plant of the genus Hottonia. – Miller. Lee.
WA-TER-WAY, n. [water and way.]
In a ship's deck, a piece of timber, forming a channel for conducting water to the scuppers.
WA-TER-WHEEL, n. [water and wheel.]
- A wheel moved by water.
- An engine for raising water from a deep well.
WA-TER-WIL-LOW, n. [water and willow.]
A plant. – Ainsworth.
WA-TER-WITH, n. [water and with.]
A plant. – Derham.
WA-TER-WORK, n. [water and work.]
Water-works are hydraulic machines or engines, particularly such as form artificial fountains, spouts and the like.
WA-TER-WORN, n.
Worn by the force of water.
WA-TER-WORT, n.
A plant of the genus Elatine. – Lee.
WA'TER-Y, a.
- Resembling water; thin or transparent, as, a liquid; as, watery humors. The oily and watery parts of the aliment. – Arbuthnot.
- Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as, watery turneps. – Philips.
- Wet; abounding with water; as, watery land; watery eyes. – Prior.
- Pertaining to water; as, the watery god. – Dryden.
- Consisting of water; as, a watery desert. – Newton.
WAT'TLE, n. [Sax. watel, a twig; allied perhaps to withe, L. vitis; that is, a shoot.]
- Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.
- The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish. – Cyc. Wafton.
- A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.