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water budget
= water bouget. †a. gen. Obs. b. Her. rare.
a.1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Odre, a water budget, a bottle. 1706J. Stevens Span. Eng. Dict., Zangés, a Water-budget to carry Water in. 1836Beckford's Vathek 12 Is it not enough to have transformed a prince..into a water budget? [F. une outre; 1786 reads one of those leather barrels, which etc.] Perceivest thou not, that I may perish by drinking to excess?
b.1562Legh Armory 176 b, He beareth Sanguine, a Gorge, Argent. Though this seme vnlikely to be a water budget, yet hath it long time been so taken, and so blazed. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 704/1 The Water Budget or bucket is an early charge identified with the names of Ros and Rose. |