William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III

217. water-lettuce (water-let"is), n. See Pistia. water-line (water-lin), n. 1. The line in which water at its surface verges or borders upon anything; specifically, in ship - building , one of the horizontal lines supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the sides of a ship, and exhibited at certain depths upon the sheer draft. The most important of these lines are the light water-line, which marks depre ion of the ship's body in the water when she is light or unladen, and the load water- line , which marks her depre ion in the water when laden. IMG:content-2124.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A semi-transparent line or mark formed in paper during its manufacture; a water-mark. See water - mark , 3. It is supposed that the waterlines are perpendicular in folio, octavo, and decimo-octavo books, and horizontal in quarto and duodecimo. water-meter It does not become your gravity... to have offered this outrage on a waterman ,... much le on a man of his civil coat. B. Jonson, Epicœne, iii. 2.