Wassailer (n.) One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
Wast () The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
Waste (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Waste (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
Waste (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
Wasted (imp. & p. p.) of Waste
Wasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste
Waste (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Waste (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Waste (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
Waste (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
Wastebasket (n.) A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
Wasteboard (n.) See Washboard, 3.
Wastebook (n.) A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
Wasteful (a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Wasteful (a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
Wasteful (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Wastel (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
Wasteness (n.) The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
Wasteness (n.) That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
Waster (v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Wastethrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Wastor (n.) A waster; a thief.
Wastorel (n.) See Wastrel.
Wastrel (n.) Any waste thing or substance
Wastrel (n.) Waste land or common land.
Wastrel (n.) A profligate.
Wastrel (n.) A neglected child; a street Arab.
Wastrel (n.) Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
Watch (v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
Watch (v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
Watch (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Watch (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
Watch (n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.
Watch (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
Watch (v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
Watch (v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
Watched (imp. & p. p.) of Watch
Watching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Watch
Watch (v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.
Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
Watchdog (n.) A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Watcher (n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
Watchet (a.) Pale or light blue.
Watchful (a.) 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.
Watchhouses (pl. ) of Watchhouse
Watchhouse (n.) A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
Watchmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
Watchmen (pl. ) of Watchman
Watchman (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Watchman (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
Watchtower (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
Watchword (n.) 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.
Watchword (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.
Water (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
Water (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
Water (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
Water (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
Water (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
Water (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
Water (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
Watered (imp. & p. p.) of Water
Watering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water
Water (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
Water (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
Water (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
Water (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
Water (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
Water (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Water adder () The water moccasin.
Water adder () The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake.
Waterage (n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
Water agrimony () A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
Water aloe () See Water soldier.
Water antelope () See Water buck.
Water arum () An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
Water back () See under 1st Back.
Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
Water ballast () Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
Water barometer () A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
Water bath () A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.