Watering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Water \Wa"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Watered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Watering}.] [AS. w[ae]terian, gew[ae]terian.]
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     1. To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with
        water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
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              With tears watering the ground.       --Milton.
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              Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the
              woodlands.                            --Longfellow.
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     2. To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to
        drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
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     3. 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.
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     4. To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity
        or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend;
        to dilute; to weaken.
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     {To water stock}, to increase the capital stock of a company
        by issuing new stock, thus diminishing the value of the
        individual shares. Cf. {Water}, n., 7. [Brokers' Cant]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Watering \Wa"ter*ing\,
     a. & n. from {Water}, v.
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     {Watering call} (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning
        cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering
        their horses.
  
     {Watering cart}, a sprinkling cart. See {Water}.
  
     {Watering place}.
     (a) A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for
         cattle, etc.
     (b) A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a
         place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to
         which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating,
         etc.
  
     {Watering pot}.
     (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated
         nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
     (b) (Zool.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve
         shells of the genus {Aspergillum}, or {Brechites}. The
         valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious
         calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube
         is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated
         by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of
         a watering pot.
  
     {Watering trough}, a trough from which cattle, horses, and
        other animals drink.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  watering
       n 1: shedding tears [syn: {lacrimation}, {lachrymation}, {tearing}]
       2: wetting with water; "the lawn needs a great deal of
          watering"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "watering":
     adulteration, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism,
     bastardizing, bath, bathing, bedewing, contamination, corruption,
     cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, deluge, dewing, dilution,
     doctoring, drenching, drowning, excretory, flooding, fortifying,
     hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion,
     inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, lachrymal,
     lachrymose, lacing, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous,
     laving, moistening, pollution, rheumy, rinsing, salivant, salivary,
     salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous,
     sialagogic, soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, spermatic,
     spiking, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
     swashing, watery, wetting