Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WA-TER-FUR-ROW, n. [water and furrow.]

In agriculture, a deep furrow made for conducting water from the ground and keeping it dry.

WA-TER-FUR-ROW, v.t.

To plow or open water-furrows.

WA-TER-GAGE, or WA-TER-GUAGE, n. [water and gage.]

An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water.

WA-TER-GALL, n.

1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water.
2. An appearance in the rainbow. – Stevens.

WA-TER-GER'MAN-DER, n.

A plant of the genus Teucrium. – Cyc.

WA-TER-GOD, n. [water and god.]

A deity that presides over the water.

WA-TER-GRU'EL, n. [water and gruel.]

A liquid food, composed of water and a small portion of meal or other farinaceous substance boiled.

WA-TER-HAIR-GRASS, n.

A species of grass, the Aira aquatica. – Cyc.

WA-TER-HAM-MER, n.

A column of water in a vacuum, which not being supported as in the air, falls against the end of the vessel with a peculiar noise. It may be formed by corking a vessel of water while it is boiling. The vapor condensing as it cools, a vacuum is formed.

WA-TER-HEMP-AG'RI-MO-NY, n.

A plant of the genus Bidens. – Lee.

WA-TER-HEN, n. [water and hen.]

A water fowl of the genus Fulica, the gallinula or moorhen; also, a species of Rallus, the soree, inhabiting Virginia and Carolina. – Cyc.

WA-TER-HOG, n. [water and hog.]

A quadruped of South America, the Hydrochærus capybara, a rodent mammal, inhabiting the shores of the great rivers of South America. Its length is about three feet. Naturalists consider it as nearly allied to the cobaya or guinea pig.

WA'TER-I-NESS, n. [from watery.]

Moisture; humidity; a state of abounding with water. – Arbuthnot.

WA'TER-ING, n.

1. The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth.
2. The place where water is supplied.

WA'TER-ING, ppr.

Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a wavy appearance to.

WA'TER-ING-PLACE, n.

A place to which people resort for mineral water, or for the use of water in some way or other.

WA'TER-ING-TROUGH, n.

A trough in which cattle and horses drink.

WA'TER-ISH, a.

1. Resembling water; thin, as a liquor. – Dryden.
2. Moist; somewhat watery; as, waterish land. – Hale.

WA'TER-ISH-NESS, n.

Thinness, as of a liquor; resemblance to water. Waterishness, which is like the serosity of our blood. – Floyer.

WA-TER-LASH-ED, a.

Lashed by the water.

WA-TER-LAU-REL, n. [water and laurel.]

A plant.

WA-TER-LEAF, n. [water and leaf.]

A plant of the genus Hydrophyllum. – Lee.

WA'TER-LESS, a.

Destitute of water. – Mitford. Tooke.

WA-TER-LEV-ED, n. [water and level.]

The level formed by the surface of still water.

WA-TER-LIL-Y, n. [water and lily.]

A plant, a Nymphtea, or Nuphar. – Lee.