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ˈwaterish, a.
[f. water n. + -ish1. (Sweet gives an OE. wæterisc, of which no example seems to be known.)]
†1. Composed of water; of the nature of water, aqueous. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 302 Eaueux, wateryshe or watry. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. etc. S j b, In time the watrishe droppes, we see doth perce the stone.
2. a. Resembling water in appearance or sensible properties.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 37 The shoomaker liquoreth his leather with waterish liquor. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 82 Pellitory roots..chewed, bring forth much waterish flegme. 1622Banister Treat. Eyes i. iv. A 8, Concerning the humours whereof the eye is made: the first called aqueus, that is, the waterish humor. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 299 The waterish part of the cream comes away first. 1748tr. Vegetius Renatus' Distemper Horses 70 The Humour will be thin, waterish and cold.
†b. As a designation of colour: Light grey, pale blue. Also waterish-blue. Obs.
1556Withals Dict. (1562) 36 b/1 Watrish colour, aquileus. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. ii. ii. 100 Some [flowers] of a sadde or darke greene, some watrishe, blunkette, gray. a1608Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 355 The waters of the Triangles, are somewhat like a watrish blew. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 27 The Hiacinth is of waterish colour. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 167 To take the Fish, the pale waterish coloured haire is the best to deceive them if the stream be clear.
†3. Native to or inhabiting the water, aquatic.
1579G. Harvey Letter.-bk. (Camden) 84 There be innumerable legions of waterishe and earthlye sprytes. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 46 Waterish foule, plentie of fish, and generally all meates with the common sort alwaies vnsalted.., doe most preiudice the health. 1717Parnell Battle Frogs & Mice i. 75 But me, nor Stalks, nor watrish Herbs delight.
†4. Relating to or concerned with water. Obs.
1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 70 In the Earthy dry Signs, they produce barrenness, by reason of drought; in Waterish Signs barrenness also, by reason of too much wet.
5. a. Containing excess of water. Of liquids: Dilute, thin, poor. Of solids: Loose in texture, not firm or compact.
1542Boorde Dyetary xxi. (1870) 284 Peares..doth increase fatnes, ingenderyng waterysshe blod. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 146 All milke that is milked in spring⁓time, is watrisher then the milke of sommer. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 15 Or feede vpon such nice and waterish diet. 1650E. Norgate Miniatura (1919) 22 Remember..that the Carnation in your great pencill be rather thin and waterish than too thick and clamy. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 35 It was of a loose watrish contexture. 1675J. Love Clavis Med. 25 Small beer is waterish. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 128 The kirnels [of the nuts]..become waterish, and in a manner tasteless. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. xvii. (1748) III. 258 What fruits the orchards yielded were tasteless, waterish, and insipid. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ballads, Anactoria 38 Moist with waterish wine. 1879J. Todhunter Alcestis 116 My blood Is waterish all with tears, and leaves me weak.
b. fig.
1549Coverdale etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. v. 1–5 In steade of the watryshe letter of the lawe gyuen vnto vs as a gage. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 96 It is but a waterish cold argument to say there be so many..forbidd. 1614D. Dyke Myst. Self-Deceiv. 302 The memory [is] slippery and waterish to receiue and retaine any good impressions. 1644Milton Divorce To Parlt. (ed. 2) A 3, Out of a waterish and queasy conscience. 1823New Monthly Mag. IX. 206/1 The waterish comedy of the ‘Belle's Stratagem’.
c. Of a taste: Characteristic of what contains excess of water.
1587Turberv. Trag. T., Epit. etc. 187 b, Of watrish taste the flesh, not firme like English biefe. 1601Holland Pliny xv. xxviii. I. 449 Plums have a waterish tast. 1653Walton Angler ii. 58 It takes away the watrish taste which the Chub or Chevin has.
†6. Having a predominance of water in the constitution. Also, of disease, characterized by accumulation of water in some part of the body. Obs.
1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. ii. xxxii. 72 The Germans..hauing foggy and waterish bodies. 1639G. Plattes Discov. Infin. Treas. x. 69 Some few Sheepe of the most waterish, and flegmaticke constitution, may be caught with this disease. 1634T. Johnson tr. A. Paré's Chirurg. Wks. vii. xviii. 270 Of the cure of a flatulent and waterish Tumor. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 18 A hot Fever, a watrish Dropsie, a pining Hectic. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 117 Their Lungs are very phlegmatick and waterish.
†7. Of eyes: Somewhat watery, disposed to run.
1561B. Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac vi. Q v, For many..on the sonne do alwaies loke with watrish winking eies.
Comb.1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3789/4 A very little Man,..somewhat thick Lipp'd, watrish Eyed.
8. Of weather, air, mist: Charged with water, watery.
1650Venner Via Recta (ed. 4) 281 This moneth [February] is commonly very raw and waterish. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 295 If small watrish Clouds appear on the tops of hills, Rain follows. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. v. 235 In that Fenny and watrish air. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxi, A dim but not chill or waterish haze slept blue on the hills. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 1292 The waterish air Hissed.
9. Of light or of luminous bodies: Dimmed by watery vapour.
1607Middleton Michaelmas Term iv. iii. 45 Like a hanging moon a little waterish awhile. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 314 The disturbance on the Sun's limb [was] so undulatory, pointed, ill-defined, waterish. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) II. 439/1 A very narrow waterish penumbra appeared round Venus. 1845Talfourd Vac. Rambles I. 196 The second walk, agreably perplexed by the waterish moonlight.
10. Of ground: Damp, wet.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 7 Gentian..growethe..in shadowe and waterishe places. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 328 Rice prospers most in waterish grounds. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xxvii. 283 His constitution resembles that waterish gravelly soil you see sometimes around a spring.
†11. Juicy, succulent. Obs.
1591A. W. Bk. Cookrye 32 b, Take..v. or vj. well watrishe Apples, pare them [etc.]. 1648Gage West Ind. 87 Excellent fruits,..so waterish that they even melt like snow in the mouth.
Hence ˈwaterishly adv.; ˈwaterishness.
1532G. Hervet Xenoph. Househ. 50 He also muste..turne vp so downe and styrre the grounde, that the soorenes and the rawe watrisshenes of hit may be warmed and well dryed vp. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxiii. 4. 238 More coldly and watrishly do others expound it. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 244 The weaknes and watrishnes of your argument. 1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. xi. 231 Overmuch Coolness, or Waterishness in the Head. 1872M. E. Braddon R. Ainsleigh iii, You and my late master's nephew are like as—I'll not say two drops of water, for there is little waterishness in your dispositions. |