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(Wattirit,) Watterit, -yt, ppl. adj. Also: wat(t)ered, watired, vaterit, watert, walterit. [ME and e.m.E. wattryd (a1400), watteryd (c1430), watred (1535), watered (1552), waltered (?1595).]
1. Soaked, wetted. 1604 Dundonald Par. Rec. 65.
Accused … for Sonday verk in taking afeild … vaterit lint fra the vater 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 125.
Our throats cut Down which we watered meal of oats put
2. Of pasture: Having a supply of water. 1596 Dalr. I 34/27.
Strathmund mairouer hes Athol to her nychtbour, with plentiful pasture, weil watired
3. Of the eyes: Having produced tears. 1631 Red Bk. Menteith II 134.
This I wrytt with ane sad hart and watterit eyis
4. Of textiles: Having a lustrous finish. c1500 Coll. St. Salvator 156.
Befor the sacrament ane claith of bukram watteryt with letteris off gold 1549 Treas. Acc. IX 331.
xij elnis blak champlot watterit … to be thame gounis 1568 Edinb. Test.I 214b.
Blak watterit chamelot 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 295.
Wattered chamlett 1620 Edinb. Test. L 272b.
Walterit camlit 1659 Bk. Dunvegan I 187.
3 ell … light watert tabie 1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 539.
For 14 yeardis of black wattered moyhaire stuff at 3 lib. 6 s.
5. Of metal: Gilded by a process of water gilding whereby gold leaf is applied by the agency of water. Also fig.b. Prob. erron. for unwatterit (Unwattirit ppl. adj.) or, ? less likely, damascened, having a wavy, lustrous pattern, as in 4 above. This sense is not, however, recorded in Eng. before 1839. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 542.
Yet all these are but like gold in clink and colour, and watered brass and base metal 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 20.
A very massy silver crosse watered over with goldfig. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 404.
Since I must have chains, He would put golden chains on me, watered over with many consolationsb. 1551 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 608.
Ane quhynȝear watterit and ungilt than recentlie coft … be him within the said burgh
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