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wateriness|ˈwɔːtərɪnɪs|
[f. watery a. + -ness.]
†1. concr. Watery constituent or element; aqueous matter contained in or diffused through a liquid or solid. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxiv. (1495) 725 Whyte wyne is more moyst than blacke bycause of clerenesse and watrynesse that hath maystry therin. Ibid. xix. lvx. 901 Mylke is the better and more holsom yf the moost deale of watrynesse is consumpte and wastyd. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 30 Take þe Iuse of þe herbes..medled wiþ..hony..and boile tham so long vnto þat þe watrynes of þe Iuyse be somewhat þikned. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secrets (1580) i. vi. 99 The moysture or watrinesse of the saied quicke siluer distilleth out in a vapoure. 1678R. R[ussell] tr. Geber ii. i. iv. v. 94 It is expedient to remove from things to be sublimed the Wateriness only with a very small Fire.
†b. Watery secretion. Obs.
c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 39 And superflue watrenes swette out fro þe place þat was wonte for to file many lynnen cloþes putte atwix. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. i. 48 b, Let y⊇ heade be epithemed in the place wher the aquositie or watrines is. 1605Timme Quersit. i. xvii. 94 It..dryeth up the tears and wateriness of the eyes.
2. The state of being watery; watery quality or nature.
1624Gataker Transubst. 186 Mere juglers and impostors, that..seeke to..maske with great wordes the naked watrinesse of their Baptisme. 1904Elizabeth in Rügen iv. 95 [Bathers] meeting you on this common ground of wateriness.
3. Superfluity of water as a constituent, connoting poorness, thinness, insipidity.
a. of the blood.
1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) H vij, If suche fluxe..happen of the watrines of bloud, giue her to drink..hony of roses [etc.]. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 18 Mere wateriness of blood..does not cause an increased flow of bile.
b. of an article of food.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 243 They attempt to remedy the wateriness of the fish by exposing it spitted to a slow fire. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 37 But what hero..can stand..the burning of his soup, or the wateriness of his potatoes.
c. fig. of literary style, composition, etc.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 587 The general haziness and wateriness of all his disquisitions. 1872Ruskin Fors Clav. xiv. 20 But as to the simplicity—or, shall we say wateriness,—of the style, I can answer you more confidently.
4. The state of being saturated with water.
1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 21 (1822) I. 164 The sudden missing of one's dry senses,—the deaf plunge and bubbling, and wrapping up in heavy wateriness. 1832― Poems, Hero & Leander i. 120 Then rising, with a sudden-ceasing sound Of wateriness, he stood on the firm ground. 1841― Seer (1864) 25 [The fly in a tea cup] then stops, and sinks down, saturated and overborne with wateriness.
5. Lachrymal moistness.
1859Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 17 A wateriness in the eye, and a huskiness in the throat. |