waterish
Example Sentences
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Now when wine is mixed with a great deal of weak liquor, it is overpowered by that, loses its strength, and becomes flat and waterish.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The Blood—and the cold cup was in my hand, Cold as an axe-heft washed with waterish red.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred
Some thinke the Hasell would haue a chanily rocke, and the sallow, and eller a waterish marish.
From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618
Because the eye is moist above all parts of the body, and of a waterish nature; and as the water is clear and smooth, so likewise is the eye.
Because it is waterish, and so doth not stay in the womb.
