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Watering   /wˈɔtərɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Watering  n.  A. & n. from Water, v.
Watering call (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses.
Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water.
Watering place.
(a)
A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc.
(b)
A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc.
Watering pot.
(a)
A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
(b)
(Zool.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites. The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot.
Watering trough, a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.


verb
Water  v. t.  (past & past part. watered; pres. part. watering)  
1.
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." "Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands."
2.
To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
3.
To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
4.
To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
To water stock, to increase the capital stock of a company by issuing new stock, thus diminishing the value of the individual shares. Cf. Water, n., 7. (Brokers' Cant)


Water  v. i.  
1.
To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water. "If thine eyes can water for his death."
2.
To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
The mouth waters, a phrase denoting that a person or animal has a longing desire for something, since the sight of food often causes one who is hungry to have an increased flow of saliva.





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"Watering" Quotes from Famous Books



... this little incident set Mr. Muller thinking and praying about orphans. Could not something be done to meet the temporal and spiritual wants of this class of very poor children? Unconsciously to himself, God had set a seed in his soul, and was watching and watering it. The idea of a definite orphan work had taken root within him, and, like any other living germ, it was springing up and growing, he knew not how. As yet it was only in the blade, but in time there would come the ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson
... a while, when we'd spun past the charming villas and attractive shops of Cannes (which looks so deceitfully sylvan, and is one of the gayest watering-places in the world) silence began ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... disregarding; but I, who am, after all, the most concerned, doubt whether such a dark utterance be a wholesome thing to hang round a young man's neck. The dreams of youth grow rank enough without such watering. The prediction was always in my mind, alluring and tantalising as a teasing girl who puts her pretty face near yours, safe that you dare not kiss it. What it said I mused on, what it said not I neglected. I dedicated my idle hours to it, and, not appeased, it invaded ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... it as the first watering-place in the world, the Special Commissioner thought he had better see the place, ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... spent on shore at the Academy, and then was again whisked off to sea, there to remain for substantially all the rest of the war. Although already prominent as a fashionable watering-place, Newport then was very far from its present development; but in winter it had a settled and pleasant, if small, society. At this time I met the widow of Captain Lawrence of the Chesapeake, who ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan


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