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To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. Shak.

e. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.

A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.

or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm. Contractile vacuole. (Zoöl.) See under Contractile, and see Illusts. of Infusoria, and Lobosa. -- Food vacuole. (Zoöl.) See under Food, and see Illust. of…

A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. Milton.

A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.

To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton.

A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

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

Resembling water; thin; watery. Feed upon such nice and waterish diet. Shak.

ruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.

us, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical countries secrete large quantities of a watery fluid.

rds. Latimer. These wizards welter in wealth's waves. Spenser. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton. The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood. Landor.

A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.

The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese. In this process, the thick part is called curd, and the thin part whey.