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- adjective Alternative spelling of
watery .
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Examples
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Here the "glint and sparkle" of Wollheim's tarred surface is rendered as the "watry" surface of an unpaved road which "glittered in the moon," like a
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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Perhaps anchent cusin of Maincoon…. cuz those maincoons do likes them sum watry funs.
catfish - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And I believe anatomists allow, that women have more watry heads than men.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Yet in the end, (for warre of none takes keepe) _Grinuile_ sunck her within the watry deepe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hereby was my master the Gardener deprived of his hope, and paying for his dinner the watry teares of his eyes, mounted upon my backe and so we went homeward the same way as wee came.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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The tree thrives as well in the shade of other trees as in the open air; in watry places and cold countries, as well as in dry grounds and hot climates; for I have been told that some of them have been found in
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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Consequence; besides if the first Wort was to be boiled too long, it would obtain so thick a Body, as to prevent in great measure its fining hereafter after so soon in the Barrel; while the smaller sort will evaporate its more watry Parts, and thereby be brought into a thicker
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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Wherevppon, from my watry eyes, the salt teares immediatly tryckling downe, it seemed vnto me a hard & contemptuous matter, to banish from my forlorne and poore heart, his olde soueraigne
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Maize delights not to grow on a watry soil, but on dry and loose land, such as the higher spots on the maritime parts of the province.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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If you will colour it, and the colour be of a watry substance, put it in with the rose-water, if a powder, mix it with your sugar before you wet it; when you have beat it in the mortar, and that it is all wet, and your colour well mixt in every place, then mould it and make it into what form you please.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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