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 aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.

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.

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.

To move one way and the other; to brandish.

Worn by the waves.

Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

A little wave; a ripple.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.

In a wavering manner.

The quality or state of wavering.

Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

The snow goose.

The quality or state of being wavy.

See Waivure.

Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

A wave.

See Waul.

To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

Made of wax.

Quality or state of being waxy.

Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as, Madame Toussaud's Waxworks.

Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

To move; to progress; to go.

Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

See Wayz-goose, n., 2.

Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

Used to the way; broken.

The act of journeying; travel; passage.

One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

Traveling; passing; being on a journey.

The tailrace of a mill.

Weak.

To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

One who waylays another.

Having no road or path; pathless.

See Welaway.

One who makes a way; a precursor.

A mark to guide in traveling.

Grief; lamentation; mourning.

Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.

The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Wearied by traveling.

The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.

To make or become weak; to weaken.