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To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.

In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers. With tears watering the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.

s between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. -- Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] -- Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. -- Ways of God, his providential government, or his…