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e at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; --said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.

The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson.

allied genera of the family Meliphagidæ. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. The wattled cocks strut to and fro. Longfellow.

Without any power (cf. Watt); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.

ct or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

One thousand watts.

A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour; --approx. = 1.34 horse-power hour.

imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

One who twattles; a twaddler.

Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.

or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

oluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] I. Watts.