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Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.

To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.

To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.

So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water. [Eng.]

A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A water buck.

One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.

One who, or that which, waters.

A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.

A flood of water; an inundation.

Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

a. & n. from Water, v. 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…