wateredadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtəd/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərd/,

/ˈwɑdərd/

Forms: see water v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: water v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < water v. + -ed suffix¹.

1. Soaked or steeped in water.

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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [adjective] > in water

watereda1450

saped1693

a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 26 (MED) Take Soundys of watteryd Stokkefysshe..an caste þer-to.

1604 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 65 Accused..for Sonday verk in taking afeild..vaterit lint fra the vater.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 27 Our throats cut, Down which we watered Meal of Oats put.

1897 J. D. Marwick Charters rel. Glasgow I. p. ccxlviii Watered lint was also prohibited to be dried or bandied on the streets under a similar penalty.

1979 J. M. Freeman Untouchable ix. 127 I ate some watered rice.

2012 R. Grafe Distant Tyranny vii. 206 The margin of error in converting the weight of watered fish into protein content.

a. Of the eyes: filled with tears; (sometimes also) discharging watery fluid, watering (watering adj. 2a).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > watery or gummy

waterya1398

watering1447

watered?c1450

vapoureda1542

waterish1561

weeping1566

gummy1580

liquid1598

swimming1703

gravy-eyed1785

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 297 For wattryd eyne and to grety.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 67 Bending hir watered eyes and woful hart with ioyned hands vnto the heauens, she prayed [etc.].

1631 in W. Fraser Red Bk. Menteith (1880) II. 134 This I wrytt with ane sad hart and watterit eyis.

1657 W. G. tr. F. Le M. de Boisrobert Indian Hist. Anaxander & Orazia 77 With wrung hands, and watred eyes, [she] conjured them, that if they had not heart enough, or rather piety, to kill her.

1845 T. Hall Effects & Adventures Raby Rattler lix. 519 No, his own ears had heard it, his watered eyes had seen it.

1973 D. Walcott Another Life xii. 79 Those nervous, inflamed men..With watered eyes, loose collars.., Drinkers who lost their pride.

2008 J. Donaldson Palilalia 10 Bruises and a gash above his watered eye.

b. Of the cheeks or face: wet with tears. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears

wet?c1225

beweptc1320

tearyc1374

moistc1390

watery1447

watered1571

blubberedc1575

vaporous1583

swelling1769

moist-eyed1797

1571 Duke of Norfolk in Hist. MSS Comm.: 14th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Ld. Kenyon (1894) 574 in Parl. Papers (C. 7571) XLIX. 1 Prayinge..with an overwhelminge harte and watered cheekes.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 84 [They] could not..but with bleeding harts and with watred cheekes behold a person of so great place and worth constrayned to indure so foule indignities.

1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule ii. 221 Smilling with his watered cheekes of sorrow in hope of a plentifull increase.

1693 J. Clark Plain Truth (verso title page) Were my Head as full of Tears As is my Heart of Fears, With watred Cheeks I would Lament, Because the Church is Rent.

1852 R. Poole Centre & Circle Evangelical Relig. xiv. 143 Many with full hearts and watered faces professed to receive the blessing.

1999 S. Herman Gordian Knot xiii. 99 The two took Carol and the rest of the Thealah family, and stepped down among the red and watered faces about them.

a. Of land, plants, etc.: supplied with water to promote plant growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > supplied with water

waterya1425

watered1531

watered1688

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > [adjective]

watered1531

irrigated1830

irrigable1844

irrigative1861

irrigatorial1867

irrigational1877

irrigatory1884

sprinklered1942

1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye lviii. sig. D.iij^v Also thou shalt be lyk a freshe watred garden.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Watered as a field, or gardein, rigatus... Watred with dew, rosidus.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxxi. 12 Their soule shall be as a watered garden.

1632 P. Fletcher Way to Blessednes (Psalms i. 4) 175 A wicked man is not a planted and watered tree.

1730 B. Wilson tr. J. A. de Thou Life in Hist. Own Time II. v. p. xcvii (note) Flora does not hold up her crowned Head, as formerly, in the watered Gardens.

1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain III. 117 How astonishing must be the influence of the sun, to produce upon their watered crops of wheat a hundred-fold in proportion to seed!

1826 J. M. Sherer Notes & Refl. Ramble Germany 180 The plain is wooded as though it were a forest, and yet you know it to be a watered garden.

1897 9th Ann. Rep. Storrs Agric. Exper. Station 1896 240 The fruit..from the watered plots were larger and ‘looked three cents per quart better’.

1900 M. Roberts Fugitives ii. 23 The girl brightened up like a watered flower.

1919 Country Gentleman 1 Nov. 46/2 Pleasant coolness was on the night wind that brought the smell of desert sage from beyond the watered fields.

2009 M. Seligman & D. Seligman Simply Green vi. 17 There is no doubt watered lawns are pretty. But what price are we paying to keep them lush and green?

b. Of meadowland: subject to flooding. Cf. water meadow n. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [adjective] > flooded

callowOE

watered1652

fluviated1807

várzea1978

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved viii. 39 Floating Land will as certainly destroy the Rush, the Flag, and Mare-blab (being well drayned againe)..and no Land richer than Watered Meades.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 51 Water, when it runs off very soon, is Beneficial, as is seen in water'd Meadows.

1789 T. Wright Acct. Advantages & Method Watering Meadows 1 The Farmer who occupies fifty Acres of this watered Land.

1826 in W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Sept. 771 Here are watered meadows nearest to the river on both sides; then the gardens, the houses, and the corn-fields.

1884 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/6 Twenty-four acres of watered meadow.

1921 Geogr. Rev. 11 42 At the bottoms of the basins are irrigated fields, watered meadows, and vineyards.

2003 Agric. Hist. Rev. 51 171 At Standlynch there were nearly 100 acres of watered meadow.

c. Of a region or locality: that has rivers or streams. Also of a road: within easy distance of water. Often with adverb, as best watered, abundantly watered, etc. Cf. well-watered adj.

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the world > the earth > water > [adjective] > having plentiful supply of water

watered1688

water-bearing1851

hydric1926

the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > supplied with water

waterya1425

watered1531

watered1688

1688 E. Bohun Geogr. Dict. sig. Pp2/1 Quantum... One of the best watered, and most fruitful Provinces in this Kingdom.

1701 Boyers Trav. Europe i. ii. 75 This is one of the best watered Parts of all Germany.

1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 38 Where noble Grafton spreads his rich domains, Round Euston's water'd vale, and sloping plains.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. viii. 136 I should say it was the best watered..piece of country yet discovered in New Holland.

1895 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/1 (advt.) Good and watered roads pass through the properties.

1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xix. 286 The greatest extent of equatorial virgin forest is fund in South America in the vast, abundantly watered plain of the Amazon.

1985 G. R. H. Wright Anc. Building South Syria & Palestine I. iii. 79 The Negev..is however by no means entirely desolate wilderness. It is traversed..by adequately watered roads and trails.

2010 J. A. Greene Beyond Bear's Paw i. 19 Fort Walsh..was raised in a watered valley of the Cypress Hills.

d. Of a road surface or pavement: sprinkled or doused with water to reduce dust.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [adjective] > sprinkled with water to lay dust

watered1772

1772 Middlesex Jrnl. 25 July Watered roads..would make travelling cheaper, easier, and pleasanter.

1820 Q. Rev. May 106 After travelling in a sultry day through clouds of dust, we have often congratulated ourselves upon entering the region of watered roads.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 184 A shop with a sun-blind, and a watered pavement..is a sanctuary.

1905 J. Huneker Visionaries vi. 123 The day was warm and the drive, despite the shaded, watered avenues, a dusty, fatiguing one.

1990 J. de St. Jorre Spain 151/1 The time to capture the flavor of the quiet, freshly watered streets and the scent of jasmine and orange blossom.

a. Esp. of wine, spirits, or milk: diluted with water. Cf. watered-down adj. 2.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > weak or diluted

smallc1420

thinc1440

single1483

watered1540

smally1577

distempered1743

shilpit1814

seven-water grog1834

three-water1840

two-water1905

1540 R. Jonas in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde iii. f. lxxxvii Geue her to drynke of trifera magna with watered wyne.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Watered, or whereunto water is put, aquatus.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell v. 69 Go to their Diet, the one drinkes Watered Wine, the other Wine watered.

1843 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 1 139 The dull monotony of a cantonment life, which is only diversified by billiards, backgammon, and brandied water or watered brandy.

1873 O. W. Holmes Addr. Opening Fifth Avenue Theatre 127 Dealers in watered milk.

1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii. §2 A supper of bread and cheese and watered beer awaited him downstairs.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street i. 2 Some of the early risers huddled round the counter to swallow their coffee, often spiked with cheap, watered rum or cognac.

2009 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 15/3 On Tuesday afternoon, track gangers got through to them with some cocoa, cake and watered brandy.

b. Finance. Of stocks, shares, etc.: artificially increased in value to a level not justified by assets, esp. in order to give a false impression to potential investors. Esp. in watered stock(s), watered capital. Cf. water v. 9d, watering n. 13.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities > types of stock

rigged1826

flat1841

watered1865

sticky1866

weak1875

washed1886

blue chip1894

pawned1903

stripped1979

1865 Sci. Amer. 2 Jan. 8/1 Such stocks are known in the market as ‘watered stocks’, and the name as applied to oil stock..is quite apropos.

1873 Newton Kansan 10 Apr. 2/2 The only curse railroads can be to a country arises from the ‘watered stock’ process.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 5/1 Deduct from that £1,250,000 of watered capital.

1904 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 72 The Company had to pay a dividend on watered capital.

1913 Pacific Reporter 134 1179/1 He did not know, when he bought the stock of the defendant, that it was ‘watered’.

1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 11/3 Most of the nineteenth-century railroad ventures collapsed under the weight of their own watered stock.

c. figurative. Chiefly derogatory. Reduced in force, impact, purity, or quality, esp. by omission, addition, or alteration; moderated, toned-down. Cf. watered-down adj. 1.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weakened

acrazed1521

extenuate1555

dispirited1659

diluted1681

deadened1720

evirtuate1799

attenuated1828

watered1866

weakened1870

1866 Spectator 5 May 487/1 The circles where female opinion means clerical opinion just a little watered.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee iv. 55 Everybody took in all this bosh..and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.

1897 F. Harrison in Daily News 2 Jan. 3/5 A watered orthodoxy and a timid ecclesiasticism.

1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. Sept. (1995) 225 This is a fair sample—moderated or watered archaism.

1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 65/1 Poe's more pretentious versifying is watered Keats.

a. Of fabric: having a glossy finish with a rippled pattern resembling waves. Esp. in watered silk. Cf. water v. 12.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > other

watered1568

water1586

Paisley1790

herringbone1860

1568 Edinb. Test. I. f. 214^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattirit Blak watterit chamelot.

?1595 Q. Eliz. & Levant Co. (1904) 87 Waltered and unwaltered Chamblletts.

1646 T. Rokeby in Brief Mem. (1861) 9 For watered tabba when my lady was at Yorke 6 l. 9 s. 9 d.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 8 Of watered Silks, or Stuffs.

1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 365 Camlets watered and not watered.

1760 H. Walpole Let. 7 June in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 300 The Duke of York, who was dressed in a pale blue watered tabby.

1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 43 The hangings of crimson cloth and watered moreen are handsome.

1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 670/2 Over his waistcoat he wore..a broad black watered riband, to which was attached his eyeglass.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. i. 256 That watered-silk she had on cost a pretty penny.

c1947 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 189 Diana sewing a piece of black and white watered taffeta; Vivien [Leigh] and I listened to Duff.

2012 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Movies section) b9 Anna wears an asymmetrical grey watered silk dress.

b. Of steel, esp. as used in sword or knife blades: having a rippled pattern resembling waves. Cf. damascened adj. b.Often with historical reference to the prized watered steel blades produced by Middle Eastern swordmakers of the medieval period, which were forged using wootz steel. In modern usage the term refers to steel made using a variety of techniques. Cf. Damascus n., wootz n.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [adjective] > damascened

damasked?1611

watered1803

damascened1862

damaskeened1882

1803 Bury & Norwich Post 12 Jan. 422/2 The railing of the sacred monument was made of the purest watered steel, inlaid with gold, and embellished with jewels.

1844 Mechanics' Mag. 18 May 346/1 There can be little doubt, that of all watered blades, the Damascus blade was the most perfect.

1880 W. Egerton Handbk. Indian Arms 98 Dagger; ‘Kris’; watered blade.

1928 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 23 128/2 The plate defenses are of watered steel, skilfully fluted and damascened in gold with pious sentiments.

1998 Ashmolean Christmas 11/1 The Museum has recently acquired two very fine examples of kards... Both have blades made of watered steel.

†6. Heraldry. Featuring a representation of water. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [adjective] > having water of specific tincture

watered1780

1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. Alphabet of Arms Powell, [Oxfordshire]..three wells az. watered ar.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	watered
释义	wateredadj.¹ Brit. /ˈwɔːtəd/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərd/, /ˈwɑdərd/ Forms: see water v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: water v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < water v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. Soaked or steeped in water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [adjective] > in water watereda1450 saped1693 a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 26 (MED) Take Soundys of watteryd Stokkefysshe..an caste þer-to. 1604 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 65 Accused..for Sonday verk in taking afeild..vaterit lint fra the vater. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 27 Our throats cut, Down which we watered Meal of Oats put. 1897 J. D. Marwick Charters rel. Glasgow I. p. ccxlviii Watered lint was also prohibited to be dried or bandied on the streets under a similar penalty. 1979 J. M. Freeman Untouchable ix. 127 I ate some watered rice. 2012 R. Grafe Distant Tyranny vii. 206 The margin of error in converting the weight of watered fish into protein content. 2. a. Of the eyes: filled with tears; (sometimes also) discharging watery fluid, watering (watering adj. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > watery or gummy waterya1398 watering1447 watered?c1450 vapoureda1542 waterish1561 weeping1566 gummy1580 liquid1598 swimming1703 gravy-eyed1785 ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 297 For wattryd eyne and to grety. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 67 Bending hir watered eyes and woful hart with ioyned hands vnto the heauens, she prayed [etc.]. 1631 in W. Fraser Red Bk. Menteith (1880) II. 134 This I wrytt with ane sad hart and watterit eyis. 1657 W. G. tr. F. Le M. de Boisrobert Indian Hist. Anaxander & Orazia 77 With wrung hands, and watred eyes, [she] conjured them, that if they had not heart enough, or rather piety, to kill her. 1845 T. Hall Effects & Adventures Raby Rattler lix. 519 No, his own ears had heard it, his watered eyes had seen it. 1973 D. Walcott Another Life xii. 79 Those nervous, inflamed men..With watered eyes, loose collars.., Drinkers who lost their pride. 2008 J. Donaldson Palilalia 10 Bruises and a gash above his watered eye. b. Of the cheeks or face: wet with tears. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears wet?c1225 beweptc1320 tearyc1374 moistc1390 watery1447 watered1571 blubberedc1575 vaporous1583 swelling1769 moist-eyed1797 1571 Duke of Norfolk in Hist. MSS Comm.: 14th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Ld. Kenyon (1894) 574 in Parl. Papers (C. 7571) XLIX. 1 Prayinge..with an overwhelminge harte and watered cheekes. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 84 [They] could not..but with bleeding harts and with watred cheekes behold a person of so great place and worth constrayned to indure so foule indignities. 1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule ii. 221 Smilling with his watered cheekes of sorrow in hope of a plentifull increase. 1693 J. Clark Plain Truth (verso title page) Were my Head as full of Tears As is my Heart of Fears, With watred Cheeks I would Lament, Because the Church is Rent. 1852 R. Poole Centre & Circle Evangelical Relig. xiv. 143 Many with full hearts and watered faces professed to receive the blessing. 1999 S. Herman Gordian Knot xiii. 99 The two took Carol and the rest of the Thealah family, and stepped down among the red and watered faces about them. 3. a. Of land, plants, etc.: supplied with water to promote plant growth. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > supplied with water waterya1425 watered1531 watered1688 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > [adjective] watered1531 irrigated1830 irrigable1844 irrigative1861 irrigatorial1867 irrigational1877 irrigatory1884 sprinklered1942 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye lviii. sig. D.iij^v Also thou shalt be lyk a freshe watred garden. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Watered as a field, or gardein, rigatus... Watred with dew, rosidus. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxxi. 12 Their soule shall be as a watered garden. View more context for this quotation 1632 P. Fletcher Way to Blessednes (Psalms i. 4) 175 A wicked man is not a planted and watered tree. 1730 B. Wilson tr. J. A. de Thou Life in Hist. Own Time II. v. p. xcvii (note) Flora does not hold up her crowned Head, as formerly, in the watered Gardens. 1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain III. 117 How astonishing must be the influence of the sun, to produce upon their watered crops of wheat a hundred-fold in proportion to seed! 1826 J. M. Sherer Notes & Refl. Ramble Germany 180 The plain is wooded as though it were a forest, and yet you know it to be a watered garden. 1897 9th Ann. Rep. Storrs Agric. Exper. Station 1896 240 The fruit..from the watered plots were larger and ‘looked three cents per quart better’. 1900 M. Roberts Fugitives ii. 23 The girl brightened up like a watered flower. 1919 Country Gentleman 1 Nov. 46/2 Pleasant coolness was on the night wind that brought the smell of desert sage from beyond the watered fields. 2009 M. Seligman & D. Seligman Simply Green vi. 17 There is no doubt watered lawns are pretty. But what price are we paying to keep them lush and green? b. Of meadowland: subject to flooding. Cf. water meadow n. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [adjective] > flooded callowOE watered1652 fluviated1807 várzea1978 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved viii. 39 Floating Land will as certainly destroy the Rush, the Flag, and Mare-blab (being well drayned againe)..and no Land richer than Watered Meades. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 51 Water, when it runs off very soon, is Beneficial, as is seen in water'd Meadows. 1789 T. Wright Acct. Advantages & Method Watering Meadows 1 The Farmer who occupies fifty Acres of this watered Land. 1826 in W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Sept. 771 Here are watered meadows nearest to the river on both sides; then the gardens, the houses, and the corn-fields. 1884 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/6 Twenty-four acres of watered meadow. 1921 Geogr. Rev. 11 42 At the bottoms of the basins are irrigated fields, watered meadows, and vineyards. 2003 Agric. Hist. Rev. 51 171 At Standlynch there were nearly 100 acres of watered meadow. c. Of a region or locality: that has rivers or streams. Also of a road: within easy distance of water. Often with adverb, as best watered, abundantly watered, etc. Cf. well-watered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [adjective] > having plentiful supply of water watered1688 water-bearing1851 hydric1926 the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > supplied with water waterya1425 watered1531 watered1688 1688 E. Bohun Geogr. Dict. sig. Pp2/1 Quantum... One of the best watered, and most fruitful Provinces in this Kingdom. 1701 Boyers Trav. Europe i. ii. 75 This is one of the best watered Parts of all Germany. 1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 38 Where noble Grafton spreads his rich domains, Round Euston's water'd vale, and sloping plains. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. viii. 136 I should say it was the best watered..piece of country yet discovered in New Holland. 1895 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/1 (advt.) Good and watered roads pass through the properties. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xix. 286 The greatest extent of equatorial virgin forest is fund in South America in the vast, abundantly watered plain of the Amazon. 1985 G. R. H. Wright Anc. Building South Syria & Palestine I. iii. 79 The Negev..is however by no means entirely desolate wilderness. It is traversed..by adequately watered roads and trails. 2010 J. A. Greene Beyond Bear's Paw i. 19 Fort Walsh..was raised in a watered valley of the Cypress Hills. d. Of a road surface or pavement: sprinkled or doused with water to reduce dust. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [adjective] > sprinkled with water to lay dust watered1772 1772 Middlesex Jrnl. 25 July Watered roads..would make travelling cheaper, easier, and pleasanter. 1820 Q. Rev. May 106 After travelling in a sultry day through clouds of dust, we have often congratulated ourselves upon entering the region of watered roads. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 184 A shop with a sun-blind, and a watered pavement..is a sanctuary. 1905 J. Huneker Visionaries vi. 123 The day was warm and the drive, despite the shaded, watered avenues, a dusty, fatiguing one. 1990 J. de St. Jorre Spain 151/1 The time to capture the flavor of the quiet, freshly watered streets and the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. 4. a. Esp. of wine, spirits, or milk: diluted with water. Cf. watered-down adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > weak or diluted smallc1420 thinc1440 single1483 watered1540 smally1577 distempered1743 shilpit1814 seven-water grog1834 three-water1840 two-water1905 1540 R. Jonas in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde iii. f. lxxxvii Geue her to drynke of trifera magna with watered wyne. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Watered, or whereunto water is put, aquatus. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell v. 69 Go to their Diet, the one drinkes Watered Wine, the other Wine watered. 1843 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 1 139 The dull monotony of a cantonment life, which is only diversified by billiards, backgammon, and brandied water or watered brandy. 1873 O. W. Holmes Addr. Opening Fifth Avenue Theatre 127 Dealers in watered milk. 1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii. §2 A supper of bread and cheese and watered beer awaited him downstairs. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street i. 2 Some of the early risers huddled round the counter to swallow their coffee, often spiked with cheap, watered rum or cognac. 2009 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 15/3 On Tuesday afternoon, track gangers got through to them with some cocoa, cake and watered brandy. b. Finance. Of stocks, shares, etc.: artificially increased in value to a level not justified by assets, esp. in order to give a false impression to potential investors. Esp. in watered stock(s), watered capital. Cf. water v. 9d, watering n. 13. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities > types of stock rigged1826 flat1841 watered1865 sticky1866 weak1875 washed1886 blue chip1894 pawned1903 stripped1979 1865 Sci. Amer. 2 Jan. 8/1 Such stocks are known in the market as ‘watered stocks’, and the name as applied to oil stock..is quite apropos. 1873 Newton Kansan 10 Apr. 2/2 The only curse railroads can be to a country arises from the ‘watered stock’ process. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 5/1 Deduct from that £1,250,000 of watered capital. 1904 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 72 The Company had to pay a dividend on watered capital. 1913 Pacific Reporter 134 1179/1 He did not know, when he bought the stock of the defendant, that it was ‘watered’. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 11/3 Most of the nineteenth-century railroad ventures collapsed under the weight of their own watered stock. c. figurative. Chiefly derogatory. Reduced in force, impact, purity, or quality, esp. by omission, addition, or alteration; moderated, toned-down. Cf. watered-down adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weakened acrazed1521 extenuate1555 dispirited1659 diluted1681 deadened1720 evirtuate1799 attenuated1828 watered1866 weakened1870 1866 Spectator 5 May 487/1 The circles where female opinion means clerical opinion just a little watered. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee iv. 55 Everybody took in all this bosh..and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me. 1897 F. Harrison in Daily News 2 Jan. 3/5 A watered orthodoxy and a timid ecclesiasticism. 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. Sept. (1995) 225 This is a fair sample—moderated or watered archaism. 1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 65/1 Poe's more pretentious versifying is watered Keats. 5. a. Of fabric: having a glossy finish with a rippled pattern resembling waves. Esp. in watered silk. Cf. water v. 12. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > other watered1568 water1586 Paisley1790 herringbone1860 1568 Edinb. Test. I. f. 214^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattirit Blak watterit chamelot. ?1595 Q. Eliz. & Levant Co. (1904) 87 Waltered and unwaltered Chamblletts. 1646 T. Rokeby in Brief Mem. (1861) 9 For watered tabba when my lady was at Yorke 6 l. 9 s. 9 d. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 8 Of watered Silks, or Stuffs. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 365 Camlets watered and not watered. 1760 H. Walpole Let. 7 June in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 300 The Duke of York, who was dressed in a pale blue watered tabby. 1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 43 The hangings of crimson cloth and watered moreen are handsome. 1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 670/2 Over his waistcoat he wore..a broad black watered riband, to which was attached his eyeglass. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. i. 256 That watered-silk she had on cost a pretty penny. c1947 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 189 Diana sewing a piece of black and white watered taffeta; Vivien [Leigh] and I listened to Duff. 2012 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Movies section) b9 Anna wears an asymmetrical grey watered silk dress. b. Of steel, esp. as used in sword or knife blades: having a rippled pattern resembling waves. Cf. damascened adj. b.Often with historical reference to the prized watered steel blades produced by Middle Eastern swordmakers of the medieval period, which were forged using wootz steel. In modern usage the term refers to steel made using a variety of techniques. Cf. Damascus n., wootz n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [adjective] > damascened damasked?1611 watered1803 damascened1862 damaskeened1882 1803 Bury & Norwich Post 12 Jan. 422/2 The railing of the sacred monument was made of the purest watered steel, inlaid with gold, and embellished with jewels. 1844 Mechanics' Mag. 18 May 346/1 There can be little doubt, that of all watered blades, the Damascus blade was the most perfect. 1880 W. Egerton Handbk. Indian Arms 98 Dagger; ‘Kris’; watered blade. 1928 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 23 128/2 The plate defenses are of watered steel, skilfully fluted and damascened in gold with pious sentiments. 1998 Ashmolean Christmas 11/1 The Museum has recently acquired two very fine examples of kards... Both have blades made of watered steel. †6. Heraldry. Featuring a representation of water. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [adjective] > having water of specific tincture watered1780 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. Alphabet of Arms Powell, [Oxfordshire]..three wells az. watered ar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † wateredadj.² Forms: see water n. and -ed suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: water n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < water n. (compare water n. 28) + -ed suffix². Obsolete. With preceding qualifying word. Of a jewel: having a grade or water (water n. 28) of a specified kind. Cf. pure-watered adj.¹ ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [adjective] > quality noblea1393 femalea1398 malea1398 orientc1400 fine-cut1598 of the old (also new) rock1598 watered1624 occidental1747 semi-precious1905 1624 B. Jonson Neptunes Triumph sig. C2 A stocke To graft the greener Emerald on Or any better-waterd stone. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3990/4 The Brilliant very clean and white watered. 1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch (new ed.) II. 278/1 Een schoon gewaterde diamant, A fine watered diamond. 1840 Odd Fellow 1 Feb. 19/5 The stones..were of fine watered diamonds and other precious stones. 1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights V. cccxxxv. 22 He gave him the clear-watered stone, saying, ‘What may be the price of this gem?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.¹a1450adj.²1624
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