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▪ I. † wat1 Obs.
Also 4–5 watt.
[Of obscure origin: not connected with wight n.]
A person; esp. a great wat.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iv. 49 We beth..y-sent ffro þe shiris to shewe what hem greueth,..And to graunte of her gold to þe grett wattis By no manere wronge way. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2816 If so be þat oon of þe grete wattes A dede do, which þat a-geyn þe lawe is, No thyng at al he punysshid for þat is. c1450Cov. Myst. (1841) 294 Ye xal fynde hym a strawnge watt. c1460Towneley Myst. xx. 10 Ye wote not wel, I weyn, what wat is commen to the towne. c1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) 821 What man ys that; Fathers soule, thys ys some great wat.
▪ II. wat2 Obs. exc. dial.|wɒt|
Forms: 5–6 watte, 6–7 watt, 5–7, 9 dial. wat.
[Prob. a use of Wat, short for Walter († Water).]
A hare.
a1500Mourn. Hare 26 in E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 44 Lo! he sayth, where syttyt an haare! Aryse upe, Watte, and go forthe blyve! Ibid. 60 As doth the sylly Wat. c1500in Babees Bk. (1868) 404, I wold my master were a watt & my boke a wyld Catt, & a brase of grehowndis in his toppe. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 913 The watte, le leurart. 1556J. Heywood Spider & Fly xxiv. 25 Neuer was there yet, any larke or wat, Before hawke or dog, flatter darde or squat. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 697 Poore wat farre off vpon a hill, Stands on his hinder-legs with listning eare. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. 331 The man whose vacant mind prepares him to the sport, The Finder sendeth out, to seek the nimble Wat. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccclxxxvii. 360 Had he not better have born Wat's Nibling of his Plants and Roots now, then the Huntsman's..Laying of his Garden Wast.
▪ III. † wat3 Obs.
Also watte.
[a. F. watte, a. Du. watte = F. ouate: see wad n.1]
= wad n.1 3.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. ii. 99 He presented him with a noble coverlet of Watte [Fr. 1659 watte]. 1671tr. Palafox's Conq. China xxxii. 566 Over this Shirt they wear a Vest..lined with Wat, or Cotton. Ibid. foot-n., Wat is the Down which covers the seeds of the Apocynum Syriacum, called in English Silk-grass.
▪ IV. ‖ wat4|wat|
Also watt.
[Thai, said to be a. Skr. vāṭa enclosure, grove.]
A Thai Buddhist temple.
1844Chinese Repository XIII. 204 The Siamese are in the habit of burning their dead, and the place selected for this purpose is near the wats. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 264 We stop for the night at a Wat, or Buddhist monastery. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 853/2 (Siam) The temples (wats) hold very little landed or house property. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 4/1 Almost every ‘wat’, or temple, in that country [Siam] has in the grounds attached to it a large flat slab of whitewashed masonry. 1897Outing Mar. 586/1 The occasional spire of a ‘Watt’ or temple, showing that this canal is one of the streets of the city [the capital of Siam].
▪ V. wat
obs. f. quoth, what; Sc. and north. f. wet a. and n., wot v.; pa. tense of wet, wite vbs.; var. whate n. Obs.
▪ VI. wat
obs. Sc. form of wait n.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 255 The erle of Mortoun also beand in leith halding wat on him. |