Watery, waw'-ter-e, a

pertaining to water; resembling ] water: thin or transparent, as a liquid; tastele ; insipid; vapid; abounding with water; consisting of water. Waterine , waw'-ter-e-nes, s. the state of weaving twigs together; the fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish; a rod laid on a roof to support the thatch; an acacia which grows abundantly in Australia and New Zealand, and the bark of which is used in tanning: v.a. to bind with twigs; to twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat (A.S. wætel). wattles. having proce es like the wattles of a cock [Bot.]: water of the sea or a river caused by the wind; motion in a fluid substance like that of a wave in: which one set of particles acts on the adjoining set with little or no permanent displacement [Physics]; unevenne ; inequality of surface; the wavy line or streak of lustre on cloth, watered and calendered: v.n. to play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate; te; to to be moved, as a signal: v.a. to raise into inequalities of surface; to move one way and the other: to brandish: to waft; to beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion a (A.S. wag) depart from; to put off; to relinquish, as a right or privilege. See Waive. margin a succe ion of arched segments or incisions [Entom.]; wavily indented [Her.] a lating. of phosphate of alumina, so called from its discoverer,Dr. Wavel. with waving towards the four cardinal points. fluctuate;to be unsettled in opinion; to be undetermined; to totter (wave) s. Wavering, unsettled wa' in -ver-ing, doctrine, a. faith fluctuating;, or opinion. being in doubt. a Waveringly, wa' -ver-ing-le, ad. in a wavering manner. Waveringne , wa'-ver-ing-nes, s. state of being unsettled. after shipwreck appear floating on the sea. s. Wave-worn, wave'-worn, a. worn by the waves. a and fro. off. waves; playing to and fro; undulating; undulating on the border or surface [Bot.] Wavine , wa'-venes, s. the state of being wavy. excreted by bees, and employed in the construction of their cells; a thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear; a substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit; a substance used in sealing letters, called sealing wax; a thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread: v.a. to smear or rub with wax (A.S. weax) (A.S. weaxan) in wax-candles. and covered with shoemakers' wax. to render it fit for melting; the proce of stopping out colours in calico-printing [Chem.] China, which produces wax,