An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 955

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

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.

~Water-craw~, _s._ The water ouzel, S.

_Stat. Acc._

~Water-kelpie~, _s._ The spirit of the waters.

_Minstr. Bord._

~Water-mouth~, _s._ The mouth of a river, vulgarly _Watter-mow_, S. B.

_Chart. Ja. VI._

~Watergang~, _s._ The race of a mill.

_Acts Ja. I._

~Water-purpie~, _s._ Common brooklime, an herb, S.

~Water-shed~, _s._ The highest ground in any part of a country, from which rivers descend in opposite directions, S.

_Ess. Highl. Soc._

~Water-slain moss~, peat earth carried off by water, and afterwards deposited, S.

_Walker._

~Water-wraith~, _s._ The spirit of the waters, S. B.

V. ~Wraith~.

WATH, _s._ A ford.

_Stat. Acc._

A. S. _wad_, Belg. _waede_, Lat. _vad-um_.

WATLING STRETE, VATLANT STREIT, a term used to denote the milky way, from its fancied resemblance of a broad street or causeway.

_Doug._

WATTIE, _s._ A blow, Ang.

Su. G. _hwat_, celer?

WATTLE, _s._ A tax paid in Shetland; said to have been introduced in return for the distribution of holy _water_.

_Stat. Acc._

To WAUBLE, _v. n._ To swing, to reel, S. O.

Isl. _veifl-a_, saepius vibrare.

_Burns._

WAUCH, _s._ Wall.

_Peblis Play._

A. S. _wah_, paries; A. Bor. _wogh_, id.

_To_ WAUCHT, WACHT OUT, WAUGHT, WAUCH, _v. a._ To quaff, to swig, S.

_N. Burne._

A. S. _veaht_, irriguus; Isl. _vokua_, madefieri.

~Waucht, Waught~, _s._ A large draught of any liquid, S.

_Ramsay._

_To_ WAUE, _v. a._ To toss, to agitate.

A. S. _waf-ian_, fluctuare.

_Douglas._