wadding sizer (wodingsi"zer)

A machine for applying a coating of size to the surface of a bat of cotton, to make wadding. E. H. Knight. waddlel (wod'l), v.; pret. and pp. waddled, ppr. waddling. [A dim. and freq. of wade.] I. in trans. To sway or rock from side to side in walking; move with short, quick steps, throwing the body from one side to the other; walk in a tottering or vacillating manner; toddle. Then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood, She could have run and waddled all about. Shak ., R. and J., i. 3. 37. Every member waddled home as fast as his short legs could carry him, wheezing as he went with corpulency and terror. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 437. 6798 wade (wad), n. [ It was a wade of fully a mile, and every now and then the water just touched the ponies' bellies. The Field , April 4, 1885. ( Encyc . Dict . ) 3. A road. See the quotation. The word wade , properly a ford, is used here to signify a road, and not merely the cro ing of water. It is, I believe, extinct as a noun, though it survives as a verb. A. H. A. Hamilton, Quarter Se ions, p. 271. wader (wa'der), n. [ wade + -er1.] 1. One who or that which wades. With waefo wae I hear zour plaint. Gil Morrice (Child's Ballads, II. 38). waene (wa'nes), n. [ wae1 + -ne .] Sadne . [Scotch.] ne . I saw where James Tennyson, The Brook. 2. In ornith., any bird belonging to the old order Grallæ or Grallatores, comprising a great number of long-legged wading birds, as distinguished from those water-birds which have short legs and webbed feet and habitually swim. The order has been broken up, or much modified; but wader is conveniently applied to such birds as cranes, herons, storks, ibises, plovers, snipes, sandpipers, and rails. II. trans. To tread down by wading or waddling through, as high gra . [Rare.] They tread and waddle all the goodly gra . Drayton, Moon-Calf. IMG:content-1979.png:[blocks in formation]