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Waters

noun

1.

United States actress and singer (1896-1977). Synonym: Ethel Waters.

2.

The serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion. Synonyms: amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid.

Water

noun

1.

Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent. Synonym: H2O.

2.

The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean). Synonym: body of water. "They were sitting by the water's edge"

3.

Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

4.

A facility that provides a source of water. Synonyms: water supply, water system. "First you have to cut off the water"

5.

Liquid excretory product. Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, weewee. "The child had to make water"

6.

A liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants.

verb

(past & past part. watered; pres. part. watering)

1.

Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams. Synonym: irrigate.

2.

Provide with water.

3.

Secrete or form water, as tears or saliva. "His eyes watered"

4.

Fill with tears.

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"Waters" Quotes from Famous Books

... lake in her beautiful nakedness, a wedding of white and blue, of purest white and bluest blue. Alvan crossed the island bridges when the sun had sprung on his shivering fair prey, to make the young fresh Morning rosy, and was glittering along the smooth lake-waters. Workmen only were abroad, and Alvan was glad to be out with them to feel with them as one of them. Close beside him the vivid genius of the preceding century, whose love of workmen was a salt of heaven in his human corruptness, looked down on ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... plans were drawn up and presented to me by one of San Jose's best architects, Wesley W. Hastings. Before this took place, however, several very striking incidents occurred, in a few of which, I feel sure, you will be interested. One was a case of casting bread upon the waters and finding of it after many days ...

— Fifteen Years With The Outcast • Mrs. Florence (Mother) Roberts

... he saw a grizzly go into a cave in the upper waters of the Platte, and strolled in there to kill her. As he has not returned up to this moment, I am sure he has erroneously allowed himself to get mixed up as to the points of the compass, and has fallen a victim to this fatal ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... have been for several. Suddenly I sat up on my rock couch, with every nerve thrilling and every sense acutely on the alert. Beyond all doubt I had heard a sound—some sound very distinct from the gurgling of the waters. It had passed, but the reverberation of it still lingered in my ear. Was it a search party? They would most certainly have shouted, and vague as this sound was which had wakened me, it was very distinct from the human voice. I sat palpitating and hardly daring to breathe. ...

— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

... New York City to pay $4,000,000 for improving the railroad's roadway on Park avenue. His grandsons now repeated his method. In 1892 the United States Government was engaged in dredging a ship canal through the Harlem River. The Secretary of War, having jurisdiction of all navigable waters, issued a mandate to the New York Central to raise its bridge to a given height, so as to permit the passing under of ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

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