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An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.

t dug; a ditch. [Written also delft, and delve.] [Obs.] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce. Fourcroy.

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.

The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. Ray.

the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.

s of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.] Boyle.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.

let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor.

A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [Obs.] T. Burnet.

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [Obs.] For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spe…

A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.