Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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 front the surface of the sea and driven furiously by the wind. Mar. Dict.

WA-TER-TA-BLE, a. [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.

WA-TER-THER-MOM'E-TER, n.

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.]

1. A wheel moved by water.
2. 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.

1. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as, a liquid; as, watery humors. The oily and watery parts of the aliment. Arbuthnot.
2. Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as, watery turneps. Philips.
3. Wet; abounding with water; as, watery land; watery eyes. Prior.
4. Pertaining to water; as, the watery god. Dryden.
5. 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.]

1. Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.
2. The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish. Cyc. Wafton.
3. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

WAT'TLE, v.t.

1. To bind with twigs.
2. To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to form a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge. Mortimer.

WAT'TLED, pp.

Bound or interwoven with twigs.

WATTLING, ppr.

Interweaving with twigs.

WAUL, v.i.

To cry as a cat.