A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.

To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.

The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

Washy; weak.

to be removed by washing; -- of spots and stains, especially on clothing.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

A washbowl.

Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

p. p. of Wash.

One who, or that which, washes.

A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.

The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

A tub in which clothes are washed.

Watery; damp; soft.

A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

To hold a wassail; to carouse.

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; -- commonly used with away.

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

See Washboard, 3.

A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.

A spendthrift.

An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

A waster; a thief.

See Wastrel.

Any waste thing or substance Waste land or common land. A profligate. A neglected child; a street Arab.

A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.

One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.

Pale or light blue.

Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.

To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.

See Canker, n., 1.

Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.

Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1. The goosander. The hooded merganser.

A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.

A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall.

The constellation Aquarius.

Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

One who paints in water colors.

To make water furrows in.

Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.

To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.

To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

Tear-filled.

So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.

A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

A water buck.

One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.

One who, or that which, waters.

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

A flood of water; an inundation.

Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

a. n. from Water, v.

Resembling water; thin; watery.

The quality of being waterish.

One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.

Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.

Destitute of water; dry.

The business or skill of a waterman.

A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.

The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.

A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.

To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.

The act or process of making waterproof.

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.

A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

See Anacharis.

Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; -- said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.

Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.

Without any power (cf. Watt); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.

The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.

An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

A large draught of any liquid.

To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

Worse.