An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

L. B. wastell-us, id. Fr. gasteau.

WASTING, s. A consumption, a decline, S.

To WAT, v. n. To know.
V. [Wait].

WATE, adj. Wet, moist, S.
Douglas.

A. S. waet, humidus; waet-an, humectare.

WATE, s.
1. A watchman, a centinel; wait, S.
Douglas.
2. Now applied to the minstrels who go about playing in the night season, S.

Teut. wachte, excubiae; et vigiles, excubitores.

3. A place of ambush.
At the wate, in wait.
Douglas.

WATER, WATTER, s.
1. A river, or pretty large body of running water, S.
Bellenden.
2. Any body of running water, whether great or small, S.
Pennant.
3. The ground lying on the banks of a river, S.
Minstr. Bord.
4. The inhabitants of a tract of country watered by a certain river or brook, S.
Ibid.

Water-brash, s. A disease consisting in a sense of heat in the epigastrium, with copious eructations of aqueous humour, S.