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ddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. [Written also scatter-brains.]

Giddy; thoughtless.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

Left-handed; hence, unlucky. [Obs.] Lovelace.

The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.

See Teeter.

The constellation Aquarius.

Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

One who paints in water colors.

To make water furrows in.

Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

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.