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adjective

Watery adj.

Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." "Fish within their watery residence."

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. "The oily and watery parts of the aliment."

Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

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... short and fat and—yes, I'm afraid he's greasy. He has bright yellow hair and a ridiculous moustache, which is brushed up on end on each side of his nostrils. He has very watery pale blue eyes, and all the blood in his face seems to have gone to ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

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... to all that transparent body which we call the heavens, whence it is said that "darkness was upon the fact of the deep." And the earth lacked beauty in two ways: first, that beauty which it acquired when its watery veil was withdrawn, and so we read that "the earth was void," or "invisible," inasmuch as the waters covered and concealed it from view; secondly, that which it derives from being adorned by herbs and plants, for which reason it is called "empty," or, according ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

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... to cook my victual. When a man comes in hungry an' tired, piety won't feed him, I reckon. Hard carrots 'ull lie heavy on his stomach, piety or no piety. I called in one day when she was dishin' up Mr. Tryan's dinner, an' I could see the potatoes was as watery as watery. It's right enough to be speritial—I'm no enemy to that; but I like my potatoes mealy. I don't see as anybody 'ull go to heaven the sooner for not digestin' their dinner—providin' they don't die sooner, as mayhap Mr. ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

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... with violence and spray By Shiyoun's town upcasts its watery store; Though full seven sons she give to life and day The mother's heart is ...

— Targum • George Borrow

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... orient glows On the broad wave its earlier lustre came; Then eastern Egypt saw the growing flame, And Maida's myrtles gleamed beneath its ray, Where first the soldier, stung with generous shame, Rivalled the heroes of the watery way, And washed in foemen's ...

— Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott • Sir Walter Scott

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