[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

water \wa"ter\, v. t. imp.  p. p. watered; p. pr.  vb. n.
   watering. as. waeterian, gewaeterian.
   1913 webster
   1. to wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with
      water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
      1913 webster

            with tears watering the ground.       --milton.
      1913 webster

            men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the
            woodlands.                            --longfellow.
      1913 webster

   2. to supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to
      drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
      1913 webster

   3. to wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a
      lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with
      wavelike lines; as, to water silk. cf. water, n., 6.
      1913 webster

   4. to add water to anything, thereby extending the quantity
      or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend;
      to dilute; to weaken.
      1913 webster

   to water stock, to increase the capital stock of a company
      by issuing new stock, thus diminishing the value of the
      individual shares. cf. water, n., 7. brokers' cant
      1913 webster
see also:
watered watering water to water stock 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

watering \wa"tering\,
   a.  n. from water, v.
   1913 webster

   watering call mil., a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning
      cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering
      their horses.

   watering cart, a sprinkling cart. see water.

   watering place.
   a a place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for
       cattle, etc.
   b a place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a
       place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to
       which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating,
       etc.

   watering pot.
   a a kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated
       nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
   b zool. any one of several species of marine bivalve
       shells of the genus aspergillum, or brechites. the
       valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious
       calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. the tube
       is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated
       by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of
       a watering pot.

   watering trough, a trough from which cattle, horses, and
      other animals drink.
      1913 webster
see also:
water watering call watering cart watering place watering pot aspergillum 
brechites watering trough 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

watering
     n 1: shedding tears syn: lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing
     2: wetting with water; "the lawn needs a great deal of
        watering"
see also:
lacrimation lachrymation tearing 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "watering":
   adulteration, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism,
   bastardizing, bath, bathing, bedewing, contamination, corruption,
   cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, deluge, dewing, dilution,
   doctoring, drenching, drowning, excretory, flooding, fortifying,
   hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion,
   inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, lachrymal,
   lachrymose, lacing, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous,
   laving, moistening, pollution, rheumy, rinsing, salivant, salivary,
   salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous,
   sialagogic, soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, spermatic,
   spiking, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
   swashing, watery, wetting

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