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These days! where e’en the extravagance of poetry 
Is at a loss for figures to express 
Men’s folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. 
WA'TERCRESSES, 5. [ sisymbrium , Lat.] A plant. 
Miller. —The nymphs of floods are made very beautiful; 
upon their heads are garlands of watercresses. Peacham. 
WATERCROOK, a village of England, in Westmoreland, 
so named from a remarkable curve in the Ken, a little below 
Kendal. 
WATERDEN, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4 miles 
west of Little Walsingham. 
WATER EATON, a hamlet of England, county of Buck¬ 
ingham, adjoining to Fenny Stratford.—2d, A hamlet in 
Oxfordshire; 3| miles north of Oxford.-—3d, A hamlet in 
Staffordshire; 2| miles south-west-by-south of Penkridge. 
WATEREE, a river of the United States, which rises in 
North Carolina, where it is called the Catabaw. 
WA'TERER, s. One who waters.—This ill weed, rather 
cut off by the ground than plucked up by the root, twice or 
thrice grew forth again; but yet, maugre the warmers and 
waterers, hath been ever parched up. Carcw. 
WA'TERFALL, s. Cataract; cascade.—I have seen in the 
Indies far greater waterfalls than those of Nilus. Ralegh. 
WATERFALL, a parish of England, in Staffordshire, 
south of Grindon. Population 455. 
WA'TERFLAG, s. [iris aquatica, Latin.] A water- 
flower. 
WATERFORD, a county of Ireland, in the province of 
Munster, bounded on the north by Kilkenny and Tipperary, 
on the east by Wexford, on the south by the sea, and on 
the west by Cork; 42 miles from east to west, and from 8 to 
22 broad, from north to south. It contains 34 parishes, 
about 18,796 houses, and 110,000 inhabitants. The country 
is in general mountainous; in some parts 720 yards above 
the level of the sea. On the sides of this chain are some 
frightful rocks and precipices, and on the summits of most 
of the mountains are large heaps of stones of great size, sup¬ 
posed to have been the ruins of some buildings, but without 
the intervention of mortar or cement. Among the moun¬ 
tains are four considerable lochs or lakes, in which are 
found trout and char. The soil is, however, fertile, and even 
on the sides of the mountains there is good pasture for cattle. 
Four members are returned to the imperial parliament, viz. 
two for the county, and for the city of Waterford and the 
town of Dungarvan one each. 
WATERFORD, a city and seaport of Ireland, and chief 
town of the county of Waterford. It is situated on the river 
Suir, which soon after joins the Barrow, and forms a bay 
called Waterford harbour. It is an episcopal see, and is 
governed by a mayor, sheriffs, and recorder. Its cathe¬ 
dral, adorned with an elegant steeple, is a chaste model 
of modern architecture. The episcopal palace is also a fine 
structure, built of hewn stone, and double fronted. The 
other public edifices are constructed in a splendid style of 
elegance, and essentially contribute to ornament the city. 
There are three parochial churches, besides the cathedral, four 
Roman Catholic chapels, and other different places of divine 
worship for various other sects. Its white glass and other 
manufactories are in a flourishing condition. Its exports of 
beef, butter, hides, tallow, pork, and corn, are very considera¬ 
ble, to which an extensive inland navigation by means of the 
rivers Suir, Nore, and Barrow, materially contributes, as also 
to make a brisk demand for foreign commodities in the several 
rich towns and flourishing counties through which these rivers 
flow. 
This city gives the title of earl to the family of Talbot; 
also of viscount to the family of Lumley, and of marquis 
to the Earl of Tyrone. Waterford is supposed to have 
been built by the Danes, and was once surrounded by a 
wall and ditches, and was otherwise fortified. Part of the 
wall is visible, yet it was never a place of great strength. In 
the reign of Henry II., it was taken by storm. In 1649, 
Oliver Cromwell laid siege to Waterford; but a mortality 
happening among his troops, he was compelled to withdraw. 
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The year following it surrendered to Ireton. In 1690, James 
II. embarked here for France, after his defeat at the battle of 
the Boyne. It was twice visited by William III., who con¬ 
firmed all its privileges; 53 miles east-north-east of Cork, and 
75 south-south-west of Dublin. Lat. 52.14. N. long. 7. 8.W. 
—2. A post township of the United States, in Oxford county, 
Maine ; 12 miles south-west of Paris. Population 860.—3. 
Formerly Littleton, a post township of the United States, 
in Caledonia county, Vermont, on the Connecticut; 14 miles 
east of Danville, and 40 east of Montpelier.—4. A township 
of the United States, in New London county, Connecticut; 
4 miles north-west of New London. Population 2185.—5. A 
post village of the United States, in Half-Moon, Saratoga 
county. New York; 4 miles north of Troy, and 10 north of 
.Albany.—6. A township of the United States, in Gloucester 
county, New Jersey. Population 2105.—7. A post town¬ 
ship of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania.—8. A post township 
of Erie county, Pennsylvania, on French Creek; 15 miles 
south-south-east of Erie. It is a flourishing town, contains 
an academy, and has considerable trade.—9. A post town of 
London county, Virginia.—10. A post township of Wash¬ 
ington county, Ohio, on the Muskingum. It is 16 miles south 
of Erie. 
WA'TERFOWL, s. Fowl that live, or get their food 
in water.— Waterfowl joy most in that air which is likest 
water. Bacon. 
WA'TERGALL, s. An hazy appearance attendant on 
the rainbow. The word is current among the shepherds on 
Salisbury plain. Steevens. 
These water galls in her dim element 
Foretell new storms. SAa/cspcare. 
A cavity made in the earth by a rapid descent of water. 
Bagshaw. 
WATER GALL, a hamlet of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire ; 4 miles south of Southam. 
WATER-GRAASZMEER, a village of the Netherlands, 
near Amsterdam, with 900 inhabitants. 
WATERGRU'EL, s. Food made with oatmeal boiled 
in water.—For breakfast milk, milk-pottage, watergruel, 
and flummery, are very fit to make for children. Locke. 
WATERHEAD, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland; 
24 miles north-east of Carlisle. 
WA'TERHEN, s. [fulica, Lat.] A coot; a waterfowl. 
WATERHOUSE ISLE, a small island lying off the south 
coast of Van Diemen’s Land. It is about 4 miles in length, 
and rises abruptly to a moderate elevation. 
WATERHOUSE, Point, a cape on the north coast of 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
WA'TERINESS, s. Humidity; moisture.—The fore¬ 
runners of an apoplexy are dulness, night-mares, weakness, 
wateri/ness , and turgidity of the eyes. Arbuthnot. 
WATERING, a village of the Netherlands, in South Hol¬ 
land. Population 1100. 
WA'TERING-PLACE, s. A town, village, or other 
place, usually on the sea-coast, noted, at certain seasons, for 
a numerous resort of persons to it.—-He had a right to em¬ 
ploy those hours in so innocent and so elegant a relaxation, 
which other gentlemen usually squander away in the noisy 
sports of the field, the expensive pleasures of the metropolis 
in the winter, or in the loitering dissipation of our public 
watering-places in the summer season. Graves. 
WATERINGBURY, a parish of England, in Kent; 5 
miles west-by-south of Maidstone. Population 852. 
WA'TERISH, adj. Resembling water.—Where the 
principles are only phlegm, what can be expected from the 
waterish matter, but an insipid manhood, and a stupid old 
infancy ? Dry den. —Moist; boggy.—Some parts of the 
earth grow moorish or waterish, others dry. Hale. 
WA'TERISHNESS, s. Thinness; resemblance of water. 
—A pendulous sliminess answers a pituitous state, or an 
acerbity, which resembles the tartar of our humours, or 
waterishness , which is like the serosity of our blood. 
Floyer. 
WATERLAND, an island in the South Pacific ocean, 
discovered 
