wattle 
Acaeia riye/w.— Wattle and daub, a rough mode of 
building iiuts, cottages, etc., of iuterwoveii twigs plastered 
with mud or clay : often used attributively : as, wattle- 
and-daub construction. Also wattle and dab. 
Melbourne in those days was a straggling village, where 
the fathers of the settlement were content with slab shan- 
ties, or watUe-aiid-daub huts. 
Quoted in Contemporary Jiev., LIII. 8. 
wattle (wot'l), f. t. ; pret. aud pp. wattled, ppr. 
tcattling. [Early mod. E. also wutle ; < ME. 
watelen, watlen; < wattle, h.] 1. To bind, wall, 
fence, or otherwise fit with wattles. 
And ther-with Grace by-gan to make a good foundement, 
Aud icatelide hit and wallyde hit with hus peynes and hus 
passion. Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 328. 
Smoke was seen to arise within a shed y' was joynd to 
y« end of ye storehouse, which was watled up with bowes. 
Bradiford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 152. 
2. To form by interweaving twigs or branches : 
as, to wattle a fence. 
The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 344. 
And round them still the wattled hurdles hung. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead, ii. 
3. To interweave ; interlace ; form into basket- 
work or network. 
A night of Clouds muffled their brows about. 
Their wattled looks gusht all in Kiuers out. 
Sylixster, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
The roof was a thatch composed of white-birch twigs, 
sweet-flag, aud straw wattled together. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 3. 
4. To switch ; beat. Balliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
wattle-bark (wot'1-bark), n. A bark used for 
tanning, obtained from several species of Jcacio 
growing in Australia. See wattle, 7. 
wattle-bird (wot'1-berd), n. 1. The Austra- 
lian wattled or warty-faced honey-eater, Aii- 
tliuchee.ru caruiimilata: formerly also called wat- 
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tip of the tail ; the length of the male is 16J inches, of the -waubeen (wa-ben'), n. Any South American 
female 15 inches ; the sexes are alike in color. A second eharacinoid fish of the subfamily Erythrinitix. 
ing a wattle or Wattles, as a bird; "specifically; !!*^^i«C, ,tr1!t^fw^h f "'''"''■^ ^" ™ otwabbleK 
■mher., noting a cock's head, and the like, when ^,f„'?,^^:3^^'^8^ ^^'■''^^' 
the wattles are of a different tincture from 
the rest: generally used in the expression 
wattled and combed. Also jewlapped, jelloped, 
and barbed. 
The wattled cocks strut to and fro. 
Lonsfellow, Wayside Inn, Prelude. 
Wattled bee-eatert. Same as wattle-bird, 1. Latham. 
— Wattled bird of paradise, Paradigalla carwnculata 
of New Guinea. This has two pairs of wattles, one on 
each side of the forehead, of a yellowish-green color, and 
another at the base of the mandible on each side, of a ^_ 
blue and orange color. The male is 11 inches long, and TOailSll^' a 
mostly of a velvety-black color with various iridescence, """si*, i 
—Wattled creepert of Latham, PtUotis caruncvlata, a 
meliphagine bird of the Samoan, Friendly, and Fiji isl- 
ands, chiefly of olivaceous, yellowish, and grayish colora- 
tion. See Wtiolis.— Wattled crow, (a) Any wattle-crow. 
(6t) Same as wattle-bird, 1. io(/ia/».— Wattled honey- 
eater. Same as toattle-bird, 1. — Wattled plover, any 
. .. a. A Scotch form of 
wallow'^. 
waucht, waught (wacht), n. [Also quaich, 
quaigh, etc. (see quaij/h); < Ir. Gael, cuach, a 
cup, bowl, milking-pail; cf. W. cwch, around 
concavity, hive, crown of a hat, boat. Cf. 
quaff.l Alargedraught of any liquid. [Scotch.] 
She drank it a' up at a wauffht, 
Left na ae drap ahin'. 
King Henry (Child's Ballads, I. ISO)- 
wauff, a. See waff^. 
waugnl, )'. *. A variant of waff^ for wane^. 
See wauch. 
waught, «. See waucht. 
waukriie, «• See wakerife. 
waul, wawl (wal), v. i. [Freq. of waw*; cf. 
caterwaul, caterwaw.} To cry as a cat; squall. 
W.itUed Plover {Lobtvanellus tobattts) 
spur-winged plover of the genns Lobivanellus, as L. loba- 
tus, Iiaving the face beset with fleshy lobes and wattles. 
llie species named hiis these formations highly developed, 
a small hind toe, and no crest; the plumage is chiefly 
white, varied with black on the head, neck, wings, and 
tail. See the case of wattles and spurs explained under 
«p«r-wmi7ed.— Wattled Btaret of Latham, Creadion ca- 
runculatum, a corvine bird of New Zealand, 8 or 9 inches 
long, chiefly of a chestnut color, the head and tail black, 
the wings black and chestnut, the wattles yellow or ver- 
milion.— Wattled tree-crow, a wattle-crow. 
wattle-facedt (wot'l-fast), a. Lantern-jawed; 
thin-faced. 
Thou wattle-fac^d sing'd pig. 
M iddletunlfliul another). Mayor of Queenlwrough, iii. 3. 
wattle-gum (wot'l-gum), «. An Australian 
gum. See gum arahic, under gum'^. 
wattle-jaws (wot'1-jaz), n. pi. Long, lanky 
_ ^ _ ^ jaws; lantern-jaws. Balliwell. 
isitinni>.mea are Merops or Corvuscarum;ulatm, Creadion Wattle-tree (wot'1-tre), H. Same as wattle, 7. 
carunev2atmn, and Corims paradoxm. It inhabits Aus- ^^ j , ^,„^3„^g „( j^e wattle-trees mark the period 
tralia, and has ear-wattles about half an mch long. In a r„„,.i,,|?, ..vcrvwhere in Australia 
related species of Tasmania, .4. inrtwri's, the wattles are i i' »' ' Coritemporary Hev. LII. 407. 
more than an inch long. The plumage is variegated with ' ' ,' 
gray, brown, and white. Several otlier raeliphagine birds wattle-turkey (wot'l-ter"ki), n. The brush- 
are also wattled, tuikey, Takgalliis lathami. See cut under Ta?«- 
2. A wattle-crow, Glaucopis cinerea, the cine- gdUng 
reous wattle-bird of Latham. — 3. A wattle- ■■-' 
Wattle-bird i^.'tftthochara carunculala). 
tied bee-eater and wattled crow by Latham, and 
pie apendeloques'byJiaMAin. Among its former New 
turkey. 
wattle-crOW( wot'l-kr6),)t. Anybird of the gi'oup 
(irlaucopime or Calleeatiitse; a wattled tree-crow; 
originally and specifically, the cinereous wat- 
A wattled fab- 
Wattle-crow (Glaucopis cinerea). 
tie-bird, Glaucopis cinerea, of the South Island 
of \ew Zealand. The wattles are rich-oiange, blue at 
the base ; the bill and feet are black ; the eyes are dark- 
brown ; the plumage is slate-gray, l>lack on the face and 
wattlework (wot'l-werk), n. 
ric or structure ; wickerwork. 
A nest of wattle-work formed of silver wire. 
S. K. Cat. Sp. Ex., 1862. 
The huts were probably more generally nmde of wattle- 
work, like those of the Swiss lakes. 
Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, p. ^271. 
wattling (wot'ling), n. [Verbal n. of J('«<We,t'.] 
A construction made by interweaving twigs, 
osiers, or flat and elastic material of any sort, 
with stakes or rods as a substructure. 
The houses . . . have here 2or 3 partitionson the ground 
floor, made with a watling of canes or sticks. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1688. 
wattmeter (wofme'ter), 71. [< icatt + »Hfter2.] 
An instrument for measuring in watts the rate 
of working or the activity in an electric circuit. 
— Electrodjmamlc wattmeter, a wattmeter or elec- 
trodynamometer the indications of which depend on the 
nnitual forces between two coils through one of which a 
curi-ent flows proportional in strength to the electromo- 
tive force, while through the other there flows either the 
whole or a definite fraction of the whole current in the 
circuit. -Electrostatic wattmeter, an electrometer 
arranged so that its indications depend on the product 
of the electrostatic difference of potential between the 
p<des of the electric generator and the electrostatic dif- 
ference of i)otential between the ends of a known non- 
inductive resistance in the circuit through which the cur- 
rent is flowing. 
The helpless infant, coming watding and crying into 
the world. Scott. 
waule, n. See wall^. 
waur (war), a. A Scotch form of war'^ for 
worse. 
waure, n. A dialectal variant of ware^. 
wau-wau, «. Same as wow-woir. H. 0. Forbes, 
Eastern Archipelago, p. 70. 
wavei (wav), v.; pret. and pp. wa»ed, ppr. war- 
ing. [< ME. waven, < AS. wafian, wave, fluctu- 
ate (rare), also waver in mind, wonder (cf. AS. 
wiefre, wavering, restless, wsfer-syn, wavering 
vision, spectacle) ; cf. Icel. "vafa, indicated in 
the freq. vafra, vajla, waver, in vaji, doubt, vajl, 
hesitation, also in vdfa. vofa, mod. vofa, swing, 
vibrate, waver, = MHG. waben, wave, = Bav. 
waiben, waver, totter; cf. MHG. freq. waberen, 
wabelen, webelen, fluctuate, waver. The orig. 
verb is rare in early use, but the freq. forms 
represented by waver and wabble are common : 
see leaver^, wabble'^. The word has been more 
or less confused with wave^, waive.'] I. intrant. 
1 . To mo ve up and down or to and fro ; undu- 
late ; fluctuate ; bend or sway back and forth ; 
flutter. 
Tile discurrouris saw Iharoe cumaude 
With baneris to the vynd va/and. 
Barbour, Bruce (E. E. T. S.), ix. 245. 
I wave, as the see dothe, Je vague or je vndoye. . . . 
After a stormc the see waveth. Palsgrave, p. TO. 
Beneath, stent Neptune shakes the solid ground ; 
The forests wave, the mountains nod around. 
Pope, niad, xx. 78. 
2. To have an undulating form or direction; 
curve alternately in opposite directions. 
To curl their waviiig hairs. Pope, E. of the L, iL 97. 
Thrice-happy he that may caress 
The ringlet's waving Italm. 
Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
3. To give a signal by a gesture of movement 
up and down or to and fro. 
A bloody arm it is, . . . and now 
It ivaves unto us ! B. Jonson, Catiline, 1 1. 
She waved to me with her hand. 
Tennyson, Maud, ix. 
4t. To waver in mind ; vacillate. 
They wave in and out, no way sufficiently grounded, no 
way resolved what to think, speak, or write. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 43. 
II. trans. 1. To move to and fro; cause to 
shake, rook, or sway; brandish. 
The Childe of Elle hee fought soe well. 
As his weapon he wavde amaine. 
The Child of Elle (Child's Ballads, III. 2S0). 
All the company fell singitig an Hebrew hymn in a bar- 
barous tone, waving themselves to and fro. 
Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 16, 1645. 
And July's eve, with balmy breath, 
Wav'd the bluebells on Newark heath. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vi., EpU. 
Specifically — 2. To offer as a wave-offering. 
See ware-offering. 
He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, tti be accepted 
for you. Lev. xxiii. 11. 
3. To shape or dispose in imdulations; cause 
to wind in and. out, as a line in curves, or a 
surface in ridges and furrows. 
Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea. 
Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 71. 
This mtui [caused by a land-slide] disported itself very 
much like lava flowing down inclined slopes, the termina- 
tions being escalloped, and the surface leared by small 
ridges like ropy lava. Scietuf, VI. 87. 
4. To decorate with a waving or winding pat- 
tern. [Rare.] 
lie giue him th' armes which late I conquer'd in 
Asteropeeus ; forg'd of brass, and wav^d alxiui with tin ; 
'Twill be a present worthy him. 
Chapinan, Iliad, xxiii. 482. 
