Webster's Dictionary 1828

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WATERING

WATERING, participle present tense Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a way appearance to.WATERING, noun1. The a...

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WATERING-PLACE

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

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WATERING-TROUGH

WATERING-TROUGH, noun A trough in which cattle and horses drink.

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WATERISH

WATERISH, adjective1. Resembling water; thin, as a liquor.2. Moist; somewhat watery; as waterish land.

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WATERISHNESS

WATERISHNESS, noun Thinness, as of a liquor; resemblance to water.WATERISHNESS, which is like the serosity of our blood.WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

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WATERLESS

WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

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WATERMAN

WATERMAN, noun [water and man.] A boatman; a ferryman; a man who manages water-craft.

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WATERY

WATERY, adjective1. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as watery humors.The oily and watery parts of the aliment.2. Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as wa...

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WATTLE

WATTLE, noun [Latin, 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 subst...

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WATTLED

WATTLED, participle passive Bound or interwoven with twigs.

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WATTLING

WATTLING, participle present tense Interweaving with twigs.

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WAUL

WAUL, verb intransitive To cry, as a cat.

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WAULING

WAULING, participle present tense Crying, as a cat.

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WAVE

WAVE, noun [G.]1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, ...

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WAVE-LOAF

WAVE-LOAF, noun [wave and loaf.] A loaf for a wave-offering.

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WAVE-OFFERING

WAVE-OFFERING, noun An offering made with waving towards the four cardinal points. Numbers 18:1.

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WAVE-SUBJECTED

WAVE-SUBJECTED, adjective Subject to be overflowed.

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WAVE-WORN

WAVE-WORN, adjective [wave and worn.] Worn by the waves.The shore that oer his wave-worn basis bowd.

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WAVED

WAVED, participle passive1. Moved one way and the other; brandished.2. Put off; omitted.3.adjective In heraldry, indented.4. Variegated in luster; as waved silk.5. In botany, un...

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WAVELESS

WAVELESS, adjective Free from waves; undisturbed; unagitated; as the waveless sea.

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WAVELLITE

WAVELLITE, noun A mineral, a phosphate or sub-phosphate of alumin; commonly found in crystals, which usually adhere and radiate, forming hemispherical or globular concretions, f...

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WAVER

WAVER, verb intransitive1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other.2. To fluctuate; to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; as, to waver ...

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WAVERER

WAVERER, noun One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith or opinion.

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WAVERING

WAVERING, participle present tense or adjective Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined.

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WAVERINGNESS

WAVERINGNESS, noun State or quality of being wavering.

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WAVING

WAVING, participle present tense Moving as a wave; playing to and fro; brandishing.

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WAVY

WAVY, adjective [from wave.[1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.2. Playing to and fro; undulating.Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.3. Undulat...