waterish
Example Sentences
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These so long as they beare, they beare lesse, worse, and fewer fruit, and waterish.
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 William Lawson
They seldom cut deeper than the epidermis, by which means they give passage to those sharp waterish humors that lie between the two skins, and cause inflammations.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
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 Alfred Noyes
If it be passionate it will be yellow; if melancholy, it will be black, and if phlegmatic, it will be waterish and whitish.
Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.—
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
